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showbiz

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n. showbusiness

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noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be bitten by the showbiz/travel/flying etc bug EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the public is a fickle mistress, and all showbiz careers not cut short by death end in failure. ▪ But, hell, that's showbiz . ▪ He was one of the first ...

Usage examples of showbiz.

Agents, these days, they look like corporation menbut Herrick was more showbiz than Coco the Clown.

Her natural shy nature is the antithesis of the extroverted showbiz mode into which many American sprinters click after any victory.

Weird as it seems, as this gang of costumed hoodlums converged on Monterey that morning they were on the verge of "making it big," as the showbiz people say, and they would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating raven.

Weird as it seems, as this gang of cos­tumed hoodlums converged on Monterey that morning they were on the verge of making it big, as the showbiz people say, and they would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some jeering, masturbating raven.

This is an obvious allusion (or, in showbiz lingo, a tie-in) to the gigantic Tree of Life that dominates the center of Disney's Animal Kingdom just as the Castle dominates the Magic Kingdom or the Sphere does Epcot.