Crossword clues for greenroom
greenroom
- Where some people wait to be shot
- A backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors
- Where concert musicians relax
- Waiting area for TV guests et al.
- Where rest of ham never returned during wedding party?
- Stag party member has never thrown up inside backstage area
- Never to return wearing dress in theatrical space for visitors
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greenroom \Green"room`\ (gr[=e]n"room`), n. The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of green room English)
WordNet
n. a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors
Usage examples of "greenroom".
Enderby went out, past the girl and women typists, and took the stairs down to the greenroom, where he gave himself lunch from the vending machine -- yoghurt with boysenberries and coffee that went on wasting itself on the sugar-encrusted grill beneath.
Eddie was shoved into the greenroom, which was overbright with dazzling mirrors and the glare of makeup lights.
She pushed past Allan to the doorway of the greenroom, where the elderly lady seized her hand.
Between sets at the Annex, the guys hung out in the greenroom, a tiny backstage den with a small black-and-white TV and a ratty sofa, trying out material, drinking and smoking -- except for Bill, who refused to indulge.
All of them -- fifteen or so including Huggins, Pineapple, Wright, Farneti, Barber, Shock, and an aspiring comedian named Mark Wilkes -- hung out between sets in the greenroom, a small, dark space with fake-wood paneling and a beer-stained floor, talking and drinking, all of them wired from stage time.
Every person who came by the greenroom was either a dealer or a friend offering him drugs.
The cast, with two notable exceptions and a nailbiting Jed Tilbury in charge, his colour today like that of a very old elephant, sat around in the greenroom, looking at Enderby.
Finally he creaked to the Greenroom door and, impelled by who knows what impulse, furtively opened it.
So easily do our standards adjust themselves to our circumstances that whereas on her first night at the Vulcan the Greenroom had seemed a blessed haven, her hours of precarious security had bred a longing for a bed and ordered cleanliness, and she began to dread the night.
She heard the Greenroom door creak and in a moment or two Jacko came in.
Gay was and someone said she was still in the Greenroom, and I was naturally worried and went to fetch her.
She was still asleep and the Greenroom, by that time, reeking with gas.
I wanted to see how the show was going and I was on my way in the passage when Ben came out of his room and went into the Greenroom next door.
Rutherford, on his entry into the Greenroom, was a figure of high fantasy.
He knocked at the door to the greenroom, which opened to a woman in a turban and a short green and silver kimono.