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Sideshow   /sˈaɪdʃˌoʊ/   Listen
Sideshow

noun
1.
A subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event.
2.
A minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus).





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"Sideshow" Quotes from Famous Books



... the forty-one seven-sided sea cooks,' says I, 'and the bad luck of the nine impenitent grasshoppers rest upon this self-same sideshow at once and forever more. Amen. I'll go to see it myself to-morrow night and investigate its baleful charm. Shall man that was made to inherit the earth be bereft of his sweetheart first by a knife and fork and then by a ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry
... on Hagen's neck and walked gently down his spine. Nothing was missing in this setup—synthetic blood, two hearts, oversize kidneys. Hagen got a quick mental flash of a barker outside a circus sideshow: He walks like a man. He talks like a man. But for a thin ...
— Ten From Infinity • Paul W. Fairman
... mixing these demonstrations up with wild dashes around behind the lamp to see if the mimicking animal were there. No matter what language the natives of each port might speak, they never failed to understand and appreciate these little sideshow comedies of Grandpa's. And when it would become noised about among them that this particular monkey had traveled all the way from South America through the air with the "bird-men," their awe for ...
— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser
... much like a Merry Andrew's or a Buffoon's sideshow, where the freaks of all sorts are gathered, such as they have at those county fairs, which the mortals get up, to which are gathered great crowds. The charge of admission is a sixpence. ...
— Welsh Fairy Tales • William Elliot Griffis
... ever tackled?" Bandy-legs was heard to say; "and now that we've got something in our trap, why don't you use that chain and padlock, Toby? Here's a prize pet for you. Think of fastenin' the same up in your back yard, and tellin' folks you had a wild boar in captivity. Regular sideshow freak ...
— Chums of the Camp Fire • Lawrence J. Leslie
... Wells Great Circus & Sideshow,'" she read slowly. "I heard about them circuses; some of the children seen them before they came to—to where I was, an' once one come to town an' sent free tickets to us, but the deaconesses said it was ...
— Anything Once • Douglas Grant


Words linked to "Sideshow" :   incident, show


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