also ad lib
(~s, ~bing, ~bed)
1.
If you ~ something in a play or a speech, you say something which has not been planned or written beforehand.
He began comically ~bing a script...
He’s good at ~bing his way out of trouble...
He is rather disjointed when he ~s.
...~bed phrases.
= improvise
VERB: V n, V way prep, V, V-ed
2.
An ~ is something which is said without having been planned or written beforehand.
Every time I fluffed a line Lenny got me out of trouble with a brilliant ~.
= improvisation
N-COUNT
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Ad lib is also an adverb.
I spoke from the pulpit ad lib.
ADV: ADV after v