Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To show beforehand; foreshow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To foreshow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
show in advance . - noun A lesser
show that occurs before the main entertainment.
Etymologies
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Examples
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After sound check at the Herbst Theater last month, Ryan Adams hurried to a nearby restaurant for a quick preshow dinner.
'I've Got This Beautiful Stupidity' Jim Fusilli 2011
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“I resisted it,” he explains over a preshow plate of pad Thai.
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“I resisted it,” he explains over a preshow plate of pad Thai.
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A preshow supper at Mamma Leone's on 48th Street seemed theater enough in and of itself.
A New Yorker Is Born David Rakoff 2010
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The Kentucky Derby, the first leg in the race for the Triple Crown, will be broadcast live from Churchill Downs on Saturday starting at 4 pm/ET/1 pm/PT on NBC with a preshow and red carpet special.
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At 7/6c, the Golden Globes red-carpet preshow on NBC had 7.4 million people watching; a rerun of America's Funniest Home Videos had an audience of 5.3 million, and a Simpsons repeat 2.6 million.
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We repeated that joke so much that we ended up liking its simplicity, and, through repetition, it was adopted as our preshow anthem.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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The problem with a preshow slot was that it gave me plenty of drinking time at the main bar before we took our seats.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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We had been invited to our first VMAs at Radio City Music Hall in New York, where we gave a preshow performance of “Where Is the Love?” on an outdoor stage before the ceremony began, marking the twentieth anniversary of MTV.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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In 2008, the MTV News preshow brought you the first sneak peek at a scene from the original vampire flick.
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