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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pre- +‎ show

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Examples

  • 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

  • “I resisted it,” he explains over a preshow plate of pad Thai.

    Sing to the Lord a New Song 2009

  • “I resisted it,” he explains over a preshow plate of pad Thai.

    Sing to the Lord a New Song 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    What Time Is the Kentucky Derby On? 2011

  • 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.

    About 17 Million Watch the Golden Globes 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • In 2008, the MTV News preshow brought you the first sneak peek at a scene from the original vampire flick.

    TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR MAY 25TH:EXCLUSIVE CLIP, ORNAMENT, BABY NAMES & MORE | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010

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