单词 | nabe |
释义 | nabeadj.n. U.S. colloquial. A. adj. Designating something local, spec. a neighbourhood cinema. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [adjective] > type of cinema nabe1922 walk-in1943 art house1949 widescreen1949 hardtop1953 1922 Denver Post 2 Dec. 10/8 (headline) Cagers Will Attend ‘Nabe’ Gym Smoker. Practically every basketball player in the city has promised to attend the benefit smoker at the Neighborhood House gym..Monday night. 1938 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 9 Aug. 12/2 Biggest flopperoo of year, so far..was the highly touted preeming of Biff Brown's band at the Ritz, nabe dancery near Bridgeport. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §587/5 Nabe pichouse, a neighborhood motion-picture theater. 1988 N.Y. Newsday 22 July 35 I wanted to start a real nabe place. B. n. 1. A local or neighbourhood cinema, esp. as distinguished from a large metropolitan cinema or (now) a multiplex. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > types of > specific nabe1933 telecinema1949 1933 Variety 14 Feb. Program fodder, except that there's more simplicity than purity. It should go to fair results and ought to hold up well in the nabes. 1935 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 8 Apr. 17 On Sunday two powerful [box office pictures] were released to the nabes. 1970 New Yorker 20 June 30/1 They picked an aging star, slapped together a moldy script, and sent the result out to the nabes. 1976 N.Y. Times 17 Oct. xi. 31/1 (advt.) What's playing at the nabes? Check the Times movie pages for the time, place and show. 1990 W. Sheed Ess. in Disguise iii. xxi. 219 Our view of military life wavered wildly, depending on what was playing at the nabe. 2. A neighbourhood. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > a community > community living close together neighbourhood1534 nabe1942 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §50/1 Nabe, naborhood, neighb, neighborhood. 1983 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 Dec. 71 Brooklyn..what its residents call ‘da nabes’, the two dozen or so ethnic neighbourhoods that distinguish it from Manhattan's concrete canyons. 1990 J. Leavy Squeeze Play i. 21 He was a kid from the nabe; a hang-out kind of guy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1922 |
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