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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burn off v. VQT pins its slender hopes on seven unseen episodes of “Brooklyn Bridge” that CBS plans to air (“burn off” in TV lingo) sometime after the first of the year. [English Entertainment Media Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 15, 2005)

burn off v. The summer season, used primarily to burn off reruns, failed series pilots and documentaries, is becoming more important as a possible springboard for freshman series that had modest ratings in the regular season. [English Entertainment Media Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 15, 2005)

burn-off v. In TV lingo, networks “burn off” episodes of rejected series after the official prime-time season ends in May.…The burnoff season also provides a bonus for viewers, giving them a fresh alternative to the nightly diet of reruns. Sometimes the final burned-off episodes of a high-quality, low-rated series. [English Entertainment Media Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 15, 2005)

burn-off theater v. Burn-Off Theater…the presentation of shelved losers and leftovers, ie. making use of pilots that didn’t go. Fox president G. Berman: “Summer isn’t just for Burn-Off Theater anymore.” [English Entertainment Media Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 14, 2005)

bus n. We hear the low growl of a panther—but it’s the hiss of the brakes of a bus as it comes into shot from screen right. Watching this in the right circumstances, you’ll jump out of your skin…as no doubt audiences in 1943. This technique is known in horror-movie technique as a “bus” in direct reference to this very scene. It’s long since become a cliché, but this is where it first appeared. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Entertainment] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2005)

bus-and-truck show n. You can’t really call the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s 75-minute touring production a “bus-and-truck” show, borrowing a phrase used to describe some Broadway tours. [English Entertainment Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 31, 2006)

button masher n. “Button masher” is often a derogatory term for fighting games. This game, however, is a button masher with smarts, and prides itself in being so. [English Entertainment Online Technology] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2006)

callback n. He ends nearly every chapter with a surprising figurative twist on something he said earlier, like what comedians refer to as a “callback.” [English Entertainment Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 9, 2008)

canine freestyle n. Dancing with dogs—or canine freestyle, as aficionados call it—is an emerging sport in the dog world. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Entertainment] [full cite] (Dec. 28, 2004)

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