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show biz
Also show-biz and as one word.
a. Colloq. (orig. U.S.) abbrev. of show business.
1945Variety 13 June 25/4 Big-league baseball already had rearranged its team travel schedules to a minimum. However show biz has done nothing about this yet. 1948N.Y. Times 18 July 2e/7 Jack Pulaski{ddd}helped coin much of Variety's lingo, such as ‘show biz’. 1953[see impression n. 6 d]. 1959R. Longrigg Wrong Number iv. 60 Got to extemporise in show biz. 1960M. T. Williams Art of Jazz p. i, A strange branch of big-time show biz. 1960New Left Rev. May–June 33/2 They have their ‘Pop Page’..their key to Showbiz. 1971‘A. Burgess’ MF xv. 162 A lot of science gets turned into showbiz as they call it. 1976Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 6/4 Blackpool remains..the heartland of Northern showbiz.
b. attrib.
1945Variety 30 May 28/3 (heading) Cantor's Showbiz tribute. 1946J. B. Priestley Bright Day viii. 243 Wouldn't it be heavenly if you could mix them up—..the retired majors..and the Show Biz boys. 1959News Chron. 17 Oct. 4/2 Skirmishes with showbiz brigands. 1976A. Davis Television: First Forty Years 42 Many of the public had misgivings, for the word ‘newscaster’ suggested a show-biz American approach.
Hence show-bizzy a.
1969Listener 9 Jan. 62/2 The first night..was a show⁓bizzy occasion. 1973S. Cohen Diane Game (1974) xvii. 149 After the welcoming speeches and..show-bizzy, bouquet-throwing speeches, the stage was cleared. 1981Times 20 May 14/5 Even more controversial, however, is Cardin's idea to make Maxim's more showbizzy with a series of monthly soirees starring international artists. |