cue card

American  

noun

Television.

1. a large card, out of range of the camera, on which words or phrases have been printed in large letters for the speaker or performer to read or use as a memory aid during a program.

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Example Sentences

Magill even released a video in which she looked like a hostage being forced to mouth words from a cue card.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2023

Two employees told the magazine that they remember witnessing Fallon scold a crew member holding a cue card during an episode that featured Seinfeld — and that the comic told the host to apologize.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Forced to stay, he displayed his typical incompetence, mistakenly reading the entirety of a cue card aloud on the air: "We'll stay on the air until a winner is declared. Take off glasses, look concerned."

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2023

Lopez performs this choice so lifelessly yet with such automatic determination that it’s fair to classify the sign as a cue card.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

Ms. Whitlock exclaimed like she was reading it off a cue card.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds