| 单词 | medicine show |
| 释义 | medicine show in American English US Obsolete a show given by entertainers who traveled from town to town, in order to sell cure-alls and nostrums medicine show in American Englishnoun a traveling troupe, esp. in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale Word origin [1935–40, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Rhodesian ridgeback, blitz, complementation, fluorocarbon, gangbuster |
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