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

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bottle episode n. Even though they are moving, for large stretches “Spiral” is a bottle episode.…They are in the Winnebago, or the gas station, and it is a contained story. [English Entertainment Television Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 19, 2006)

bottle show n. Now in TV production parlance, “a bottle show” is an episode of a television series that is deliberately designed to be shot on the cheap. Meaning that it can’t feature any on-location work, massive crowd scenes or elaborate stunts. Ideally, “a bottle show” must make use of the series’ pre-existing sets & costumes as well as keep the number of guest stars needed down to a bare minimum. [English Entertainment Television Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 19, 2006)

bottle show n. The producers decided to fall back on a cost-saving television gimmick—a combined clip and bottle show. “Clip,” because a sizable part of the episode would consist of clips from previous episodes, and “bottle,” because it would be shot on already existing sets. [English Entertainment Television Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 19, 2006)

bottle show n. A rather chatty “bottle” show, this episode could be contrasted to the fourth season episode, “The Drumhead.” [English Entertainment Television Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 19, 2006)

bovie n. “Bovies,” also known as “movies made out of books,” was coined by purists in the 1970s to heap sarcasm upon those benighted souls who thought they could translate the excitement of the printed word on to the screen. [English Entertainment] [full cite] (Jun. 11, 2004)

boylesque n. “Boylesque,” as burlesque veteran and boylesque coach Dirty Martini calls male burlesque, has a long tradition of queer and transgender performance. [English Entertainment] [full cite] (Jul. 12, 2006)

brick v. Soul on Ice got exceptional critical praise from The Source and Rolling Stone, but the album bricked commercially. [ Language English Subject Business Entertainment] [full cite] (Nov. 17, 2005)

brick v. While “Ghetto Fabulous” did exactly what it was supposed to do for the producer/rapper, Ras Kass and his very fine RasKassination were in the toilet with his core audience. Brick two. [ Language English Subject Business Entertainment] [full cite] (Nov. 17, 2005)

bull terrier match n. The first match was Mini Abismo Negro vs. Mascarita Sagrada, who ROOLS, so I thought I might watch it. Then I saw that is was a bull terrier match, which apparently is the Spanish term for dog collar match. [English Entertainment Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Sep. 3, 2005)

bullshot n. Faked, enhanced, or otherwise augmented screenshots are commonly called “bullshots.” Their intent is to make a game look more appealing than it actually is, and their occurrence has largely existed since video games were first commercialized. So are bullshots misleading or just good marketing? [English Entertainment Marketing Online Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 20, 2008)

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