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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viewser n. Now, the technology is so advanced and changing, even the industry word for a person who watches TV has changed, Heizman says. It used to be “viewer.” The new word is “viewser.” Today’s viewser doesn’t necessarily watch TV. He might click to the station’s Web site, instead. [English Entertainment Media Technology Television Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2006)

viewser n. The display device for the data broadcast service would typically be the television receiver connected to a set-top box of some sort and destined for a target group of viewer/users (or as Gary Arlen, of Arlen Communications prefers, viewsers). That would put the traditional television service and the enhanced broadcast service in the same user environment, on the same platform. [English Entertainment Media Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2006)

viewser n. The idea that the “viewer” is truly participating is somewhat misleading at this stage of devlopment and some interactive film makers believe a term like “viewser” (from “viewer” and “computer user") would be more appropriate because the state of the art is more to do with combining features of both films and computer games. [English Entertainment Media Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2006)

vineyard seating n. The 2400-seat auditorium, home of the Halle Orchestra, is designed to combine the acoustic advantages of the standard “shoebox” and terraced “vineyard” seating arrangements. [United Kingdom Architecture Entertainment] [full cite] (Aug. 11, 2004)

vineyard seating n. There’s also talk that the ASO will ask for a “vineyard seating” hall, where the audience can sit behind and to the sides of the stage on shallow terraces—a cozier arrangement for the audience, but a trickier job for the acoustician. [Architecture Entertainment] [full cite] (Aug. 11, 2004)

virtual orchestra machine n. In picketing and press releases, it refers to products like Notion and Sinfonia as “virtual orchestra machines”: a kind of alien in the pit. [English Entertainment Music Technology] [full cite] (Mar. 25, 2007)

vom n. The stage at Le Rêve is a 27-foot-deep circular pool of water. At three points on its circumference—the 12 o’clock, 4 o’clock, and 8 o’clock positions—are vomitory lifts (not vomitory as in “a place where you puke” but vomitory as in the tunnels that admitted ancient Romans into the Coliseum). The voms are water-filled tunnels that lead backstage so scenery and performers can move into the pool. [English Entertainment Slang Abbreviation] [full cite] (Aug. 1, 2007)

vomit comet n. Chris had just ridden the new roller coaster four times in a row, but he insisted he was still seeing things straight. The coaster is part of perhaps the park’s weirdest section of all, called Paradise Pier. It’s a tribute to the old-fashioned seaside amusement parks with their “Hey-sailor-win-a-kewpie- doll” carnival games and vomit-comet rides that Walt Disney himself detested. [English Entertainment Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 29, 2006)

wad v. I know the R1 gets your wheaties but she’s a handful for inexperienced riders. Be careful and try not to wad that expensive little toy. [Automobiles & Transportation Entertainment Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 7, 2004)

walk the room v. phr. Jerry Seinfeld, for example, who worked the same clubs as Mr. Pryor in the late 1970’s and early 80’s, said he distinctly recalled nights when Mr. Pryor would “walk the room,” comedian lingo for driving patrons out into the streets. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Entertainment] [full cite] (Dec. 13, 2005)

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