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A person who does not have any arms, and appears as a circus sideshow
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(slang, archaic, journalism) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column.
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Reminiscent of P. T. Barnum (1810–1891), American showman and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding a circus.
adj
Of or relating to P. T. Barnum (1810–1891), American showman and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding a circus.
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The largest and most prominent performance in a circus.
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(by extension) The circus; the circus lifestyle.
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Food and entertainment provided by the state, particularly if intended to placate the people.
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One of the workers who erect a circus tent.
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(informal, countable) A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud).
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A public-facing Disney employee.
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A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
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A performance typical of a circus, such as tightrope walking or fire eating.
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A freak of nature, a biological rarity, especially one that is exhibited in a freak show.
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All the things related to circuses.
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Resembling or characteristic of a club (entertainment establishment), particularly in decor or music.
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Alternative form of cool hunter [(colloquial, marketing) Someone employed to find the newest trends, especially by the fashion or media industry.]
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One who takes part in cosplay.
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(cosplay) A form of cosplay in which one dresses up as a character of the opposite sex.
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A participant in the demoscene.
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(entertainment) A type of performance involving men wearing women's clothing or, less often, the other way round.
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An impersonator of Elvis Presley.
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(transitive, intransitive) To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
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A commercially-designed experience intended to combine entertainment and retailing.
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A person who entertains others, esp. as a profession, as a singer, actor, presenter, dancer, musician, magician, comedian, etc.
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A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.
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The phenomenon of popular entertainment (especially that which is intended for children) linked to the mass marketing of tie-in toys and products.
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(informal) entertainment
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A person who executes a dance or piece of music; a performer.
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Puppets caused to enact dramatic scenes by means of machinery.
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(rap music) A cameo on another performer's track.
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A small puppet manipulated from the inside by the puppeteer's fingers.
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A circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged to perform circus acts within a small housing.
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A structure, usually at a circus or amusement park, enclosing several interactive attractions that do not involve performers.
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(historical) A show performed using silhouettes and shadow puppets.
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One who dances on someone's grave.
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One who literally dances on a grave.
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Alternative form of guiser [A person in disguise, as for a parade or festival.]
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(music, slang, figuratively, metonymically) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
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Alternative form of hip-hopster. [A member of the hip-hop culture; a hip-hop artist.]
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A member of the hip-hop culture; a hip-hop artist.
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(film, informal) Of a talent agent, to informally represent (an actor, screenwriter etc.) without signing a formal contract.
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(entertainment industry) A person who is being provisionally represented by an agent but is not yet signed by the agency.
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A hip-hop performer responsible for backup rapping and singing and increasing an audience’s excitement with call-and-response chants.
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A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the end men and acts as leader.
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(archaic) Alternative form of entertainment [An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.]
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(theater, circus) A kind of clown.
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(historical) The practice or performance of a jongleur ("an itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France").
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An outsider working in a circus.
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(dated) A magician or wizard.
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A puppeteer who controls a marionette.
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A traveling presentation which sells miracle cures and other products between various entertainment acts.
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(art) A painting, usually from the 17th century, showing a small group of people enjoying themselves, usually seated with drinks and music.
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(informal) A small, easily-digested article, programme, etc.
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(theater) A variety show performed by minstrels, primarily white people in blackface.
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The spontaneous circle created near a stage when concertgoers mosh
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(music, sometimes derogatory) One who improvises.
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(idiomatic, by extension) A person or group known for achieving only a single major accomplishment.
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An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening.
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A single appearance by a performer.
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An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
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One who performs a role in a pageant.
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One who takes part in a pageant.
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Obsolete form of pageant. [An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.]
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One who performs for, or entertains, an audience.
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A cant used by travelling showmen in Britain.
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(used attributively in set phrases) Popular.
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(Britain) A promenade concert.
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Alternative form of promposal [(informal) An invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom.]
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A person in the standing area of a promenade concert.
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(usually humorous) A teenage girl who is obsessed with preparing for her prom and ensuring it turns out the way she envisions.
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A traditional sideshow often found at seaside resorts, consisting of various glove puppets operated by one person in a small tent-style booth theatre.
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An entertainer whose performances involve rapid changes of costume.
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A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture.
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(historical) One who attends salons (social gatherings).
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A puppet used in shadow play.
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A man who works in showbusiness.
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A person who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus or variety show.
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Resembling or characteristic of a showman.
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Alternative form of sideshow [A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair, music festival or similar.]
n
A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair, music festival or similar.
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(Australia) the cluster of attractions that may accompany public events such as agricultural shows
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A showman who operates a sideshow.
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A carnival sideshow featuring only one performer or attraction.
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A bootleg video recording of a theatrical production, especially of a Broadway musical.
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An artist (musician, actor, painter, etc), who performs in a public place, usually for donated money.
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A carnival sideshow featuring a number of different performers and acts.
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A person who performs a striptease.
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A puppetry technique used in the 1960s, involving motorized marionettes suspended and controlled by thin wires.
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An entertainer or musician, or group thereof, that performs before the main event.
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In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
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(UK) An agent who seeks out potential talent for the entertainment industry.
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A carnival freak show that presents numerous exhibits in the same location.
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(informal) An entertainment agent.
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(humorous) A dancer or singer in the entertainment industry.
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Alternative form of three-ring circus [A large circus in which three separate performances, each within its own circular enclosure, are staged simultaneously before a single audience.]
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A large circus in which three separate performances, each within its own circular enclosure, are staged simultaneously before a single audience.
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One who is billed as the primary entertainer.
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(by extension) An obsessive follower of any minority interest or hobby.
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(archaic) A magician or juggler; a trickster.
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One who goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, usually a child dressed in a costume.
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(dated) Alternative form of trick-or-treating. [The practice of going house to house on Halloween evening to receive treats.]
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An entertainer who can act, dance, and sing equally well.
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Alternative form of triple threat [An entertainer who can act, dance, and sing equally well.]
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Alternative form of triple threat [An entertainer who can act, dance, and sing equally well.]
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(rare, poetic) To dance with joy or exultation.
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(US) An employee, usually male, of a Borscht Belt resort charged with the duty of entertaining guests throughout the day by providing any number of services, from comedian to master of ceremonies.
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(bingo) A traditional call for the number eighty-eight.
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(radio, television, theater) A type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.
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Alternative form of vaudevillian [(US) Someone who performs in vaudeville.]
adj
Resembling or characteristic of vaudeville.
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A vaudeville performer or composer.
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A costumed character with the performer's face covered by a costume head.
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(obsolete or historical) A popular tale or romance, or a song embodying a popular tale or romance.
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