am-dram
Britishabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Peake plays Meredith Ankle, matriarch of the am-dram group and owner of Ankle Carpets.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2022
The characters in the Dewsbury am-dram group have their bread buttered on various sides, but they agree Lady Boothroyd is, as Peake believes too, a symbol of democratic respectability and stability compared with today's politicians.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2022
A gleaming, sumptuous political drama that made its BBC predecessor look like provincial am-dram, House of Cards was underpinned by Kevin Spacey's remarkable slow-motion Foghorn Leghorn turn as scheming majority whip, Frank Underwood.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2013
Even the eternal roadworks outside Victoria station get a look-in, with Bottom and his friends fitting in a spot of am-dram in between digging up the road.
From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2013
"But we're fighting against people's ideas of am-dram – wobbly sets, people forgetting their lines."
From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2012
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