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spookshow

noun

Etymology

From spook + show.

  1. derived from *(s)kewh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *skawwōną✻ — “to look, see”
  3. inherited from *skauwōn✻
  4. inherited from scēawian
  5. inherited from schewen
  6. compounded as spookshow — “spook + show”

Definitions

  1. A show that involves ghosts.

    • Now that you've learned the tricks, it's time to put on a spookshow.
    • ...full of characters who die screaming, but the Tom Baker-era spookshows have too much fun with the trappings of genre to be as ruthless.
    • Adding it up one way, then adding it up another just to see if he can make it come out any other way than the crazy spookshow equation it wears for a face.

  2. An organisation or situation that involves spies.

    • "Underneath the spookshow trappings, what is the bureau, anyway, but another intelligence agency?"
    • They're some kind of British spookshow, totally top secret.

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