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freak shows

n. (freak show English)

Usage examples of "freak shows".

As the years passed, they became more and more extreme in nature, involving erotic circuses complete with acrobats, trained animal acts, and freak shows.

Work in show business long enough, and you're bound to see all kind of freak shows.

Flint was dreaming of Vermont again, of strip shows and freak shows and employees who didn't look as if they had stepped out of the Late Night Creature Features movie, when he felt a bony hand gently shake him by the shoulder.

If they win, you and I will be changed once more, in the mind, where it counts, and we will become animals, sexual whores for carnivals and freak shows.

Back on Earth sometimes they have these freak shows, with a traveling circus or something.

Every inch of the hallway was hung with panels from all manner of Carnival rides: brilliantly colored advertisements for Tunnels of Love, Ghost Train Rides, Carousels, Freak Shows, Wrestling Shows, Gal Shows, Waltzes, Dippers, and Mystic Swings.

For a few farthings, a visitor could watch street acrobatics, performing dogs, and freak shows, or get drunk.

I can make my living in freak shows: the human fly, see him scale the walls.

Aunt Min read the Police Gazette with as much fervor as her Bible, and knew chapter and verse about the vice and depravity practiced at Coney: men and women clinging to each other on the great wheel, five-cent beers, freak shows.