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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suspenser n. “Mauritius” caters efficiently to a hunger that Broadway hasn’t been gratifying in recent years. That’s the corkscrew-twist drama of suspense, a genre that was a theatrical staple for much of the 20th century.…And “Mauritius” is head and shoulders over recent Broadway examples of what the trade papers like to call suspensers, half-baked plays like John Pielmeier’s “Voices in the Dark” and Stephen Belber’s “Match.” [English Entertainment Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2007)

sweatbox n. Pixar’s story development process as well as its internal lexicon—including sweatbox, when the director critiques individual animations, and plus-ing, heaping more and more good ideas on a structure that’s already working—come directly from the House That Mickey Built. [Entertainment Media] [full cite] (May. 28, 2004)

swede v. You too can be sweded!…Where the movie concerns two bumbling friends (Jack Black and Mos Def) remaking a host of Hollywood movies after accidentally erasing the entire contents of their video shop, the website takes the same tack with the internet. So you control a cursor on a bit of string and most of the interweb appears to be made of wood and paper. It’s hard to explain, but go check it out. You can also drop yourself into covers for movies like Lord of the Rings and The Golden Compass. [English Entertainment Movies New or Nonce] [full cite] (Feb. 25, 2008)

sweetening n. I’m not going to claim that nothing I ever wrote or produced got juiced up in post-production. But I never had anything to do with the laugh-track process—called sweetening. I always left that to the line producer, and my instructions were to add laughs only when a joke didn’t get a fair shake in front of a live audience. [English Entertainment Television Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 9, 2008)

synthistrator n. Synthistrator. An orchestrator who creates a synthesized mock-up recording. [English Entertainment Movies Music Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2008)

tap out v. phr. Once, in a match with Kazushi Sakuraba of Japan, Mr. Gracie refused to “tap out,” or submit, despite being in an iron hold. Mr. Gracie let his own arm snap. [English Entertainment Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 21, 2007)

ten-twent-thirt n. The result has been, so the theatre managers themselves agree, not only the practical extinction of the cheaper melodramas which used to cater to “the masses,” the “ten-twent-thirts,” as they were called, plays which had no literary quality whatever, and were never so well done as film-players do the same sort of thing, but also the practical desertion of the gallery seats for dramas of the better sort. A generation ago it would have been almost inconceivable that a man would build a theatre without any gallery in it. [English Entertainment Movies] [full cite] (Aug. 13, 2007)

tent pole n. It’s easy to see how big movies—called “tent poles” in industry parlance—can be big risks. “You can’t afford too many tent poles in a year,” said Jeff Sine, the global head of media at UBS Warburg. [English Entertainment Media Movies] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2004)

tent pole n. The industry term for a movie (usually but not always a franchise flick) that a major studio expects will be a blockbuster (but often isn’t), “tent pole” is a particularly evocative buzzword to toss around these days, especially for those brushing up on ancient texts or history in preparation for a pitch meeting with a major studio. [English United States Entertainment Media Movies] [full cite] (May. 31, 2004)

tent pole n. As the only major industry in town, it is the tent pole of Stratford’s economy. [English Business Entertainment Media] [full cite] (Jun. 18, 2004)

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