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dumb show

noun

  1. a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
  2. gestures without speech.


dumb show

noun

  1. a part of a play acted in pantomime, popular in early English drama
  2. meaningful gestures; mime
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of dumb show1

First recorded in 1555–65
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Example Sentences

It might, however, be just the dumb show necessary to capture dumb times.

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But the core partisans understood that the campaign was not the coded dumb show the candidates were performing.

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A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was easy to recognise the pantomime of a marriage.

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Billions, the labyrinthine drama about a shady hedge-fund investor and the shady district attorney on his tail, is by far and away the smartest dumb show on TV.

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"F—k you and your dumb show and your mystery illness. She disappears for two months, nobody knows why, and now she’s questioning me? ... I never fainted on my show either."

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