sideshow Definition
☆ side·show (-s̸hō′)
noun
- a small, separate show in connection with the main show, as of a circus
- something of minor importance; subordinate event
sideshow Synonyms
sideshow Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: These helmet arguments have become an irrelevant sideshow in the story of cycle safety.
- run: I got some fame, shall we say, in the UK for running sideshow for Moby shows last year.
- compare: But the campaign was a sideshow compared to the huge conflict on the Eastern Front.
- provide: Lick the sweat off your partner to obtain heat -relief and provide a welcome sexual sideshow for bored fellow-travellers.
- have: I have the feeling Sideshow will use existing head sculpts as well.
Adjective modifier
- mere: The Virginia City people had heard many famous lectures before, but they were mere sideshows compared with Mark's.
- other: Recommend over Sideshow's two previous Connery figures, this third figure sets the bar higher than any other sideshow 1:6 scale range.
- irrelevant: These helmet arguments have become an irrelevant sideshow in the story of cycle safety.
- Victorian: She appears as the supremely glamorous Astonishing Voodoo Priestess ( very popular in Victorian sideshows, along with cannibal queens ).
- ridiculous: The Haka - a wonderful spectacle or a ridiculous sideshow?
- useful: IGF: success, great success or useful sideshow?
Modifies a noun
- Collectible: Sideshow Collectibles and Lucas Francis Studio have partnered to create the life-size T-800 Endoskeleton replica.
- freak: The android returned to Horton, only to discover that he had visions of becoming rich by displaying the Flashlight like a sideshow freak.
- performer: We explore the antics of " weird " specialists, bizarre magicians and sideshow performers.
- action: Someone should start making custom shoulder holster rigs based on the movies for each sideshow action figure.
- event: No longer a novelty or sideshow event but committed players with their own league and structure.
Noun used with modifier
- circus: With an enormous repertoire of skills, David is one of the world's leading escapologists and circus sideshow performers.
- carnival: Their demented romance leads the couple through a twisted world of carnival sideshows, media frenzy, and necrophilia.
- fairground: He finished up working in a fairground sideshow where he died after being mauled by a lion.
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