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fake Shemp

noun

Etymology

Coined by film director Sam Raimi in reference to Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use of these techniques to finish the films to which he was already committed.

Definitions

  1. A person who appears disguised in a film as a replacement for another actor or person.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fake Shemp. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA