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am-dram

British  

abbreviation

  1. informal amateur dramatics

"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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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

Surely there’s no longer room for wooden delivery or am-dram hamminess?

From The Guardian Dec. 16, 2015

You’d think he’d just performed a one-man am-dram re-enactment of the Saving Private Ryan trailer.

From The Guardian Jul. 14, 2014

Students can design anything and, if it's good enough, I will wear it – although the wackier the idea, the better made it needs to be to save it from looking am-dram.

From The Guardian Jul. 8, 2013

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