Movies Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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circus parking n. No one’s driveway was blocked or street parking eliminated by what’s called circus parking: the small army of semi-trailers and support trucks for a big Hollywood film. [English Automobiles & Transportation Movies Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 23, 2007)

circus parking n. This property is fully equipped with security fences, which makes it a perfect location for circus parking while filming anywhere in the downtown eastside. [English Automobiles & Transportation Movies Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 23, 2007)

circus parking n. Crew and circus parking proposal. [English Canada Automobiles & Transportation Movies Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 30, 2007)

circus parking n. It became a real military exercise when parking generators, worktrucks, and trailers near access points to locations while ensuring that crew members did not become lost between circus parking and location. [English Canada Automobiles & Transportation Movies Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 30, 2007)

circus parking n. We can take circus parking at several of our surface locations. [English Canada Automobiles & Transportation Movies Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 30, 2007)

circus parking n. Parking lots are very expensive, too. When I first came here you could buy an Impark parking lot (for crew and circus parking) for $300 to $400. [English Canada Automobiles & Transportation Movies Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 30, 2007)

clearance n. The 68-year-old theater has seen increased competition from suburban multiplexes over the years and Kiefaber has long decried a movie industry practice known as “clearance,” which he says has threatened his theater’s ability to get the movies he wants. Movie theater owners often use their influence with a distributor to prevent nearby theaters from playing the same film, a tactic otherwise known as clearance. [English Movies Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 22, 2007)

cookie n. Cookies. Also called coo-koos, or cucaloris, these metal or wood templates are placed in front of instruments to create shadow patterns, often of clouds or leaves. The word “cucaloris” comes from the Greek for shadow play. [English Entertainment Movies Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 5, 2004)

cuddle market n. In the post-"Scream” horror world, the target audience is primarily young girls—or what some producers call the “cuddle” market, teenagers who want excuses to squeal and clutch each other in the dark. That demographic generally holds true even for the torture films offered by the “Saw” and “Hostel” series. [English Entertainment Movies Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 9, 2007)

D-girl n. “D-girl” is the movie industry sobriquet for a woman who works in the murky world of “development.” Men dominate most of the power jobs in the industry-directing, producing, running studios-but women reign supreme in the Big D, development.…There are probably about 100 D-girls in Hollywood. Perhaps a fourth are really young men, but women are so prevalent in development that even the men often are referred to as “D-girls"—and even appear that way on many agency lists.…The term D-girl has evolved into common usage in recent years and represents at once nothing more than a joking reference to their lack of power in a power-mad world and a telling reminder of the sexism that pervades the movie business. [English Entertainment Movies] [full cite] (Sep. 3, 2004)

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