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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beer pong n. Urban Outfitters stocks a popular beer pong kit called Bombed and boxed sets of rules for other games. In January, thousands of players are expected at the first World Series of Beer Pong, sponsored by a beer pong accessories company and held on the outskirts of—where else?—Las Vegas. [ Language English Subject Entertainment Food & Drink] [full cite] (Oct. 16, 2005)

beer thirty n. On a recent Friday evening at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Kyle Field, 22, and his friends were watching television in an off-campus house when the clock struck 8:30. “Beer thirty!” someone yelled. “Let’s drink!” [ Language English Subject Entertainment Food & Drink] [full cite] (Oct. 16, 2005)

BF n. I have often been struck by the numbers of young men, in small towns as well as in metro cities, who say that much of their “knowledge” about sex has come from the study of what is so familiar that it has been reduced to the acronym, “BF”; which for the uninitiated means blue films. [English Entertainment Sex & Sexuality Acronym] [full cite] (Mar. 27, 2005)

big red truck n. “I figured it was just a matter of time before somebody came running out of the big red truck with a box full of plates,” said crew chief Todd Parrott, using the garage area parlance for NASCAR’s headquarters. [English Automobiles & Transportation Entertainment] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2006)

bishojo n. Sadly, in these sims—also known as bishojo (Japanese for “pretty girl”) games—the balance between tedium and delight is firmly tilted toward boredom. [Japanese Japan Entertainment Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2004)

blowoff n. The Elliot Forbes speech was what is known in the carnival world as a “blowoff,” long used in 10-in-one freak shows to hustle additional money from people who had already paid an admission price. In any good blowoff, there’s the constant implication that the “good stuff” is in the attraction you haven’t paid for yet—in this case, the book. [English Entertainment Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 15, 2004)

bondage rigger n. They were filming an update for the site Men In Pain. It would feature two players billed as Wild Bill and Claire Adams. Adams, who is 25, gave up on a philosophy degree to become a bondage rigger. (Last year, she tied up the actor Peter Sarsgaard for a bondage-themed spread in Vanity Fair.) She wore a fishnet top and a miniature barbell through each nipple. [English Entertainment Movies Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Apr. 29, 2007)

Bono n. “a Bono”: a place in the script that, no matter what joke you put there, it fails. Sonny Bono once opened a restaraunt up near the studios, called, of course, “Bono’s.” It failed, quickly. That’s unremarkable. But then, every restaraunt that opened on that corner after Bono’s also failed. Something like a DOZEN of them, and all flaming out spectacularly in six months. That corner was cursed, and so the script term “a Bono” was born. It’s hard to really explain a Bono to you unless you’ve seen one, but they’re real. [English Entertainment Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 19, 2005)

Boston version n. Burlesque has a rich history in Boston, where several burlesque theaters stood in Scollay Square before the district was demolished to make way for Government Center. Performers during burlesque’s heyday coined the term “the Boston version,” refering to the covered-up version of the strip shows performed when censors were in the audience. [English Entertainment] [full cite] (Mar. 26, 2008)

bottle episode n. They reversed the weather in two other episodes, writing in a blizzard that keeps everyone housebound and keeps the cameras inside. A show where the cast never gets outside is called “a bottle episode.” [English Entertainment Television Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 19, 2006)

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