cue

1. (n) The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q. 2. (n) An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something. 3. (n) The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword. 4. (n) (electronics, computing) A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording. 5. (n) A hint or intimation. 6. (v) To give someone a cue signal. 7. (v) (by extension) To spark or provoke. 8. (n) (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games. 9. (v) (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it. 10. (v) To form into a cue; to braid; to twist. 11. (n) (obsolete, UK, universities) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrāns (“farthing”)) in the buttery books. 12. (n) (obsolete) Humour; temper of mind. 13. (n) (obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue. 14. (n) A small town and local government area (the Shire of Cue) in the Mid West region, Western Australia, named after Tom Cue. 15. (n) A surname. 16. (n) (law) Acronym of clear and unmistakable error, a legal standard for appeal of a decision by a Board of Veterans Appeals in the United States.