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showman
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Word definitions for showman in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments [syn: promoter , impresario ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Showman can have a variety of meanings, usually by context and depending on the country.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus or variety show. 2 A person skilled in dramatic or entertaining presentation, performance, or publicity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who presents shows," 1734, from see show (n.) + man (n.).
Usage examples of showman.
So it easily might not have been Showman, just somewhat like him in colour and size.
Once they are established as Allyx and Showman, Offen cannot possibly claim them back.
The tug of the unfinished chase was very faint, and whether Allyx and Showman ever sired another foal seemed a matter of supreme unimportance.
Buttress Life suspect that Moviemaker and Centigrade are Showman and Allyx.
I untied the nearest, Showman, and led him quietly up the yard and into the van.
We sipped the well-iced innocuous stuff and he said again that Offen would have to be prosecuted, if only to provide a reason for Allyx and Showman having disappeared for so many years, and to account for the tattoo marks inside their mouths.
Offen in the end, even if we have to wait until after Showman and Allyx have been re-syndicated and their first official crops have won as much stake money as all the others.
Andy took the card tendered by the showman after the latter had written a few words on it in pencil.
Another side showman offered me a big salary, and my boss got worried.
Pain Russtif was using the prod on the other side of the tent wall, using it with the skill of a trained showman to stir up a sulky or frightened beast.
The odor of the food, the sweet scents from the green grass underneath their feet, all so familiar to the showman, gave Phil and Teddy appetites that even a canvasman might have envied.
He was now a seasoned showman, after something less than three days under canvas.
His calm, professional demeanor was not to be disturbed by the blustering but kindhearted showman, and the showman, knowing this from past experience, relapsed into silence until such time as the surgeon should conclude to answer him.
That was a source of keen satisfaction to the showman, for he felt that he could not afford to lose the young circus boy.
A lawyer called on the showman, demanding the payment of ten thousand dollars damages for the injuries sustained by his client, and which, he said, would in all probability make the man a cripple for life.