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

Citations in the Category Entertainment

Entertainment, the music biz, Hollywood, actors, movies, recreation, games and gaming, amusements, or anything purchased as a form of casual diversion. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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A-story n. The A-story, as they call it in the TV biz, concerns Tom’s efforts to interview and then assist Crazy Benny, the tire guy, who insanely slashes prices to the bone. [English Entertainment Media Television Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 3, 2004)

adrenalit n. Atria Books coined a new word for Bell’s way with words: adrenalit, a novel containing “non-stop, high-energy, edge-of-your-seat action.” [English Entertainment] [full cite] (Aug. 2, 2005)

ageplay n. Prosecutors in Germany have started to investigate anonymous members of the virtual world Second Life after a German TV news magazine, Report Mainz, uncovered a virtual child sex pornography ring, where users would pay Linden Money, Second Life’s version of Cash, to see pornographic images of children and buy sex with other players who pose as children using “skins’ or “avatars” in a virtual sexual practice known as ageplay. [English Entertainment Online Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (May. 9, 2007)

alibi game n. Carnys call these “alibi games,” because the operator uses a long litany of excuses to keep the mark from giving up in disgust, and encouraging him to dig more money out of his wallet and try “just one more time” to win a stuffed animal that his girlfriend doesn’t even really want. [English Entertainment] [full cite] (Aug. 29, 2006)

alternative reality game n. ARGs, as they’re called, use real-world clues—from classified ads to answering-machine messages to URLs that show up in obscure places—to help players solve puzzles so intricate they might take groups to crack. Initial entry points are called “rabbit holes.” Some recent and current alternative reality games. [English Entertainment] [full cite] (May. 25, 2005)

AMW n. We stopped to let some AMWs (actress-model-whatevers) cross the street from SkyBar toward Chateau Marmont. [Entertainment Slang Acronym] [full cite] (May. 5, 2004)

angel n. In square dance parlance, solo dancers are called “angels.” [ Language English Subject Entertainment] [full cite] (Oct. 9, 2005)

ARG n. ARGs, as they’re called, use real-world clues—from classified ads to answering-machine messages to URLs that show up in obscure places—to help players solve puzzles so intricate they might take groups to crack. [English Entertainment Acronym] [full cite] (May. 25, 2005)

audio puppeteering n. To that end Mr. Stanton enlisted the man who created the grammar of the “Star Wars” robot R2D2, the veteran sound designer Ben Burtt. Mr. Stanton wrote a conventional script—“Hi, I’m Wall-E”—and Mr. Burtt essentially translated the dialogue into robot, something he calls “audio puppeteering.” [English Entertainment Movies Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 22, 2008)

babyface turn n. Merlin (Stephen Dillane) seems to be warring with Arthur’s crazy-brave knights, until he pulls a babyface turn (as they call it in wrestling) and decides to join the fight for Britain against the Saxons. [English Entertainment] [full cite] (Jul. 17, 2004)

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