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

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cowboy clicker n. Watching television games doesn’t satisfy that hunger because my set doesn’t have what is known in coaching parlance as a “cowboy clicker”—a device that attaches to a VCR allowing plays to be run back and forth a million times at normal speed or in slow motion or frozen to allow precise study of offensive and defensive alignments. [English Technology Television Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 11, 2006)

docu-soap n. Beers, who often narrates his own shows, has found a winning formula for his “docu-soaps,” as he calls them. His series typically profile men with blue-collar jobs, such as crab fishermen, truckers, Texas oil wildcatters and Northwest lumberjacks. [English Entertainment Television] [full cite] (Feb. 6, 2008)

dutching n. In Dick’s Bar, the camera sways a little, dutching and panning, as if to suggest that you the viewer the customer, the barfly has already had a few. [English Media Television] [full cite] (Oct. 13, 2004)

dutching n. While he and Markowitz are fighting the clock’s second hand, attempting to capture Ganser and Frankston’s moves with the dutching, dollying camera in eight seconds, Travisano is constantly attentive to detail. [English Entertainment Television] [full cite] (Oct. 13, 2004)

fakeality n. Take F list celebs Angie Everhart, Shar Jackson and Marla Maples add non-famous women who have gone through nasty divorces, add a “life coach” and you have yet another cheap hour of fakeality television. [English Entertainment Television New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 27, 2007)

foiler n. Note that Blair won’t be an only child for long if Cyrus does marry Eleanor. His son Aaron (the artist now dating Serena) would become Blair’s step-brother, just like in the books. Oh, and just a warning to anyone searching for “Gossip Girls” spoilers—Josh wants you all to know that he sometimes puts out fake information to throw everyone off the scent! They are called “Foilers.” [English Media Television] [full cite] (Nov. 19, 2008)

frankenbite n. Frankenbite…An edited reality show snippet, most often found in contestant testimonials, that splices together several disparate strands of an interview, or even multiple interviews, into a single clip. A frankenbite allows editors to manufacture “story” (see definition below) efficiently and dramatically by extracting the salient elements of a lengthy, nuanced interview or exchange into a seemingly blunt, revealing confession or argument. While the frankenbite’s origins certainly don’t reside in reality TV, this is a reality show editor’s most potent tool for manipulating viewer perception of a contestant. [English Entertainment Television] [full cite] (Jul. 19, 2005)

frankenbite n. The reality stories have a beginning and middle and end, shaped by writers who are called not writers but “story editors” or “segment producers,“ who use the expression “frankenbites” (after Dr. Frankenstein’s monster) to describe the art of switching around contestant sound bites recorded at different times and patched together to create what appears to be a seamless narrative. [English Entertainment Television] [full cite] (Jul. 19, 2005)

full Ginsburg n. This momentous subject began to elbow aside scarier topics like Iraq on September 23rd, when the junior senator from New York got herself interviewed on all five of the Sunday-morning political variety shows, a feat known as “the full Ginsburg,” in honor of William Ginsburg, Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer, who, on February 1, 1998, was the first to manage it. [English Media Television Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 11, 2007)

gabber n. The guild was pointing out how soon television might grind to a halt, including shows like Saturday Night Live (almost immediately) and what the trades call “gabbers,“ like the Letterman show (the host was a union loyalist in a previous strike and is the likely bellwether for the response of other talk show hosts to a strike.) [English Entertainment Television Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 6, 2007)

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