"keyfabe" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: keyfabe

Part of speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: HHH lost his push, and was pulled out of all the WWF’s summer PPV’s because of the infamous event at the Garden, i.e. the breaking of keyfabe.

Article or document title:
“Re: [INFO] Hack Notes - 12 June 1996” (URL)

Author:
“The Chief”

(This author is either a pseudonym or is not clearly named in the original source.)

Article, document, publication, web site:
Usenet: rec.sport.pro-wrestling

Date of publication:
June 19, 1996

This cite belongs to a full entry for kayfabe.

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