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Person not turning up food or water, initially
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no-show
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
No show or no-show or No Show may refer to: No show, failure to turn up for a performance No-show (airlines) , clause of some airlines' terms of service No-show (professional wrestling) , when a wrestler does not show up for a match No-show job , a job ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
no-show \no-show\ n. someone who shirks a duty. Syn: nonattender, truant. A person who is expected to attend a gathering but does not come. Specifically, a person who buys a ticket to a game or other entertainment and does not attend.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Forward Armon Gilliam has been a no-show so far at Milwaukee Bucks preseason training camp, team officials said. ▪ Last year, when there were team parties or functions, she was a no-show . ▪ Most of the standbys however, look ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also no show , "someone who fails to keep an appointment," 1941, from no + show (v.), in the "show up, appear" sense. Originally airline jargon.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) An absence; somebody who doesn't show up or a failure to make a schedule appearance, especially at one's place of employment. vb. To fail to show up for something.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation someone who shirks duty [syn: nonattender , truant ]
Usage examples of no-show.
GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Saginaw, where a Republican dressed as Uncle Sam will show up on 8Zfoot stilts and totter around the dim banquet hall through the whole thing and nearly crash into the network crews' riser several times and bug the hell out of everyone, and where the Twelve Monkeys will bribe or bullshit the headwaiter into seating them at a no-show table and feeding them supper while all the rest of the press corps has to stand in the back of the hall and try to help the slightly mad Economist guy cabbage breadsticks when nobody's looking.
I was sure my nasty relatives, having betted heavily against this day, were chuckling at the possibility of a no-show.
I'm a guilt-free no-show at the Clueless Crew's hoo-has of the season.
I've had my share of bonk-famines, no-shows and squidge-gimmicks, shoe-horners and sneeze-jobs, twang-strikes and heft-outs.