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  • noun Alternative spelling of game show.

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Examples

  • A new British gameshow is giving trips into space (in cooperation with the Russian space agency) as the grand prize.

    Boing Boing: December 2, 2001 - December 8, 2001 Archives 2001

  • This doesn't come across at all which takes the gameshow aspect away from the TV gameshow, which is what Buzz essentially is.

    IOL Technology 2008

  • Some of your students seem to think that you maintain a cumulative total, like some kind of gameshow "Who Wants to Graduate"?

    A peaceful end to the year. Angry Professor 2005

  • And the best way they know to do this - because it is the lesson they've learned since they were old enough to admire their first lefty butcher - is to use one of the magic words that, through a social and media consensus, they've come to be able to rely upon as kind of gameshow lifelines.

    protein wisdom 2009

  • Pubegate bubbles on over the entire episode of the guest-house gameshow where three sets of owners stay in each other's establishments, before revealing what they think the room is worth per night in the hope of winning a framed certificate.

    Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed 2011

  • Fronted by Ant and Dec and a joint venture with Cowell's Syco, the gameshow with a £1m prize will be filmed in Wembley Arena and around the UK, and is due on ITV1 in the autumn.

    'There's an absolute will that it's better for ITV if we make the stuff ourselves' 2011

  • Still, wouldn't it be nice to return to the good old days of Sonic the Hedgehog where you could die horribly by drowning but before that happened, you got bright colours and a gameshow countdown timer to bring it about, rather than horrifying orchestral music and 8 shades of gray?

    Archive 2009-02-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • The second law of science on TV says any attempt to make a subject more accessible by turning it into a gameshow will end in disaster.

    TV review: Horizon: Seeing Stars; Safebreakers and Only Connect 2011

  • Still, wouldn't it be nice to return to the good old days of Sonic the Hedgehog where you could die horribly by drowning but before that happened, you got bright colours and a gameshow countdown timer to bring it about, rather than horrifying orchestral music and 8 shades of gray?

    Guest Rant: Turning The Other Cheek Ben Abraham 2009

  • Only the bland finished product will do, and everyone has to walk around beaming like an inoffensive gameshow host.

    Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say 2011

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