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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stiff v. There was another single, “Listen To Me” (on which Nash probably participates), a fine commercial record which was (as usual) an English smash and an American stiff.…A slow-paced single called “The Baby” was released in March of this year, gaining the distinction of not only stiffing out in the U.S., as usual, but bombing rather badly in England as well. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2005)

Streisand effect n. The lesson the AACS seems unwilling to learn is sometimes referred to as the Streisand Effect, in reference to the aging chanteuse who didn’t want photos of her home published, and only encouraged even more people to publish them. [English Entertainment Online] [full cite] (May. 6, 2007)

strip n. Turning it into a “strip” channel may be its fate. Don’t get excited: That’s not strip as in nubile women. “Strips” is industry argot for reruns of popular shows like Friends, Seinfeld and The Honeymooners. They’re still hits with viewers, and they come cheap. [English Entertainment Media Television] [full cite] (Aug. 20, 2004)

stripping n. Stripping [specific programmes in the same slots across the week] is fine in the early evening, though we should stop transmitting Australian soaps then, and develop our own home-grown drama. [English Entertainment Media Jargon] [full cite] (May. 7, 2004)

stunt casting n. Stunt casting—as it is called (when producers bring into celebrities from other arenas to help beef up the box-office of aging shows)—is becoming commonplace on Broadway. It has been the key to the winning formula of “Chicago.” [English Entertainment Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 14, 2007)

su doku n. “You won’t find Su Doku in a Japanese dictionary,” said puzzle creator Wayne Gould in The Times of London. “It’s a coined word, made up by a Japanese publisher.…As I understand it ‘Su’ stands for number, and ‘Doku’ has some notion of singularity or bachelorhood about it, emphasizing perhaps that there is only one of each number in each unit (row/column/box).” [Japanese Entertainment] [full cite] (Apr. 5, 2005)

sunka n. Chonka is a board game with origins in Africa. It is extremely popular in Asia as well as on Guam and is sometimes called tsungka, sunka, or chuncajon. The game board is a wooden slate with bowl-like holes in the middle of the board and a bowl at both ends. [Entertainment] [full cite] (Aug. 1, 2005)

supermarionation n. A cheesy puppet show that was filmed in what was laughingly referred to as “supermarionation,” the show has mysteriously become something of a cult hit. Despite the fact that the special effects amounted largely to giant puffballs of smoke and cardboard rockets hung from string, the show has managed to remain in syndication these last forty years. [English Entertainment Television] [full cite] (Aug. 1, 2004)

supermarionation n. Thunderbirds Are Go….Supermarionation. Technicolor. [English United States Entertainment] [full cite] (Aug. 2, 2004)

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