Crossword clues for switcheroo
The Collaborative International Dictionary
switcheroo \switch"er*oo\ n. a sudden and unexpected change or reversal of position, attitude, or action.
Wiktionary
alt. (context informal English) A sneaky, unexpected, or clever swap or exchange. n. (context informal English) A sneaky, unexpected, or clever swap or exchange.
WordNet
n. a sudden unexpected switch
Wikipedia
A switcheroo is a sudden unexpected variation or reversal, often for a humorous purpose. It is colloquially used in reference to an act of intentionally or unintentionally swapping two objects.
As a comedic device, this was a favorite of Woody Allen; for a time, he used so many switcheroos that friends referred to him as "Allen Woody." Some of Allen's switcheroo gags were:
- Carrying a sword on the street; in case of an attack it turned into a cane, so people would feel sorry for him
- Carrying a bullet in his breast pocket; he claimed someone once threw a Bible at him and the bullet saved his life.
Another example comes from the film The Aristocrats, wherein Wendy Liebman pulls "the old switcheroo". Whereas the joke normally is narrated as a vulgar series of actions followed by the clean punch line, Liebman narrates a very aristocratic series of actions followed by a very vulgar punch line.
In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter names one of the rules in his version of Propositional calculus the Switcheroo Rule, apparently in honour of an Albanian railroad engineer, name Q. Q. Switcheroo, who "worked in logic on the siding". This is in reality the Material implication.
Switcheroo can mean:
- A sudden unexpected switch, often associated with a joke (sometimes "the old switcheroo")
- Switcheroo (The Price Is Right), a segment game played on The Price Is Right
Usage examples of "switcheroo".
And then, on top of all that, the men who pulled off this switcheroo would have had to be awfully damn sure than anyone and everyone involved in the conspiracy was completely reliable and that no one would spill.
At a guess, when Core pulled that switcheroo, there was no place else for her mind to go.
The Old Switcheroo by the gifted Hogan Shlestertrap of Hollywood California U.
As neat a switcheroo on an original plot as Hogan Shlestertrap has ever turned.
After a long pause in which no one dared to comment, the nzred nzredd suggested I project the First Stereo again with The Old Switcheroo immediately following so that we could compare them more easily.
You are but a few days from the egg, but you have already seen both the First Stereo and The Old Switcheroo as many times as conditions permit.
The loving reunion at the end is the same in both, except that the mlenb, instead of backing into his muddy burrow in the final scene of The Old Switcheroo, slips and falls heavily across it.
To this, the other six sexes replied that The Old Switcheroo was not an alternative, but the consummation of our cultural process.
I did a little switcheroo on them, and it was Karl Sundwi they knifed and put in an acid bath.
Over breakfast he decided he would ask one or two sheepmen he knew in the county whether that switcheroo was a possibility.
Nik had pulled a smooth switcheroo, turning his attention to the tall, slim waitress-until-she-hit-it-big, who had winked at him when they ordered.
Frowning at Klaus for the unexpected switcheroo, he stood up and and walked over to within a few feet of the jury box.
What if they were slipped out a window in the dead of night or a switcheroo was done, money under the table?
With the Grail and a little Otherside switcheroo he could order up room service whenever he needed from anyone at hand.