show biz
Also show-biz and as one word.
a. Colloq. (orig. U.S.) abbrev. of show business.
| 1945 Variety 13 June 25/4 Big-league baseball already had rearranged its team travel schedules to a minimum. However show biz has done nothing about this yet. 1948 N.Y. Times 18 July 2e/7 Jack Pulaski{ddd}helped coin much of Variety's lingo, such as ‘show biz’. 1953 [see impression n. 6 d]. 1959 R. Longrigg Wrong Number iv. 60 Got to extemporise in show biz. 1960 M. T. Williams Art of Jazz p. i, A strange branch of big-time show biz. 1960 New Left Rev. May–June 33/2 They have their ‘Pop Page’..their key to Showbiz. 1971 ‘A. Burgess’ MF xv. 162 A lot of science gets turned into showbiz as they call it. 1976 Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 6/4 Blackpool remains..the heartland of Northern showbiz. |
b. attrib.
| 1945 Variety 30 May 28/3 (heading) Cantor's Showbiz tribute. 1946 J. B. Priestley Bright Day viii. 243 Wouldn't it be heavenly if you could mix them up—..the retired majors..and the Show Biz boys. 1959 News Chron. 17 Oct. 4/2 Skirmishes with showbiz brigands. 1976 A. Davis Television: First Forty Years 42 Many of the public had misgivings, for the word ‘newscaster’ suggested a show-biz American approach. |
Hence show-bizzy a.
| 1969 Listener 9 Jan. 62/2 The first night..was a show⁓bizzy occasion. 1973 S. Cohen Diane Game (1974) xvii. 149 After the welcoming speeches and..show-bizzy, bouquet-throwing speeches, the stage was cleared. 1981 Times 20 May 14/5 Even more controversial, however, is Cardin's idea to make Maxim's more showbizzy with a series of monthly soirees starring international artists. |