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sideshow
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sideshow is an informal demonstration of automotive stunts now often held in vacant lots , and public intersections, most often in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area , United States . Sideshows first appeared in Oakland as informal social ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also side-show , 1855, "minor exhibition alongside or near a principal one," apparently a coinage of P.T. Barnum's, from side (adj.) + show (n.). Hence, any diversion or distracting event.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event; "instruction is not an educational sideshow" a minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A minor attraction at a larger event such as a circus, fair, music festival or similar. 2 An incidental spectacle that diverts attention from a larger concern. 3 (cx US English) An incident in which drivers block traffic to perform donuts for an extended ...
Usage examples of sideshow.
Then they all, even the most dignified and best-dressed dowagers, walked about munching the pretzels while they shopped at the other midway joints or watched the sideshow or sat down to have their salty palms read by Magpie Maggie Hag.
One of the sideshow talkers arrived to herd the townies to the next attraction and on to the big tent for the show.
The night we came back from the Ahasuerus Traveling Sideshow, Thaddeus picked up one of the local girls, and I spent the night with Jupiter Monk, our wild animal trainer.
No matter how hard he looked, he never came up with a second one, which was one of the reasons he was so sensitive about the Ahasuerus Traveling Sideshow.
Crowded shoulder to shoulder down one side of the cobbled lane, their miniature facades suggested a shuttered sideshow in some secret urban carnival.
He wanted to watch Alma having sex with one of the freaks from the sideshow, but since they were just a bunch of actors in makeup, Thaddeus had decided to use me, since according to him I was the closest thing we had to a real freak.
It was in the City of the Five Monoliths that Selznak had operated his sideshow.
Or maybe a very expensive wedding in the South -- Old, incestuous families, things like that -- or a carnival scene, like a traveling carnival, with sideshows at country fairs.
But someone, somewhere, has seen fit to sendThe Ahasuerus and Flint Traveling Carnival and Sideshow a goddamned tombstone for a dead animal.
Jupiter Monk, ofThe Ahasuerus and Flint Traveling Carnival and Sideshow ?
With appreciation, from the Ahasuerus and Flint Traveling Carnival and Sideshow.
But finally, by late afternoon, all was in readiness, and Thaddeus announced that his division ofThe Ahasuerus and Flint Traveling Carnival and Sideshow would be ready to move out in ten minutes.
It was a mere sideshow in the great design of a Germany and a German people, pure in blood and ideals, ruling the world as is their right, our right, Miller, our right and our destiny, if those hell-damned Britishers and the eternally stupid Americans had not stuck their prissy noses in.
But Florian commanded the waiters to clear one large round table for his conference with his Equestrian Director Edge, his Canvasmaster Goesle, his Bandmaster Beck and his Sideshow Director Fitzfarris.
So the sideshow gave way to a salvation tent, and Miss Reba grew up chanking a tambourine to the melody of Rock of Ages, and collecting his offerings in her gold-painted lard bucket.