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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

Sooner or later, we will once more be condemned to watch a load of am-dram overlords stab their way to a solution.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018

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

The action, if such it can be called, happens as an am-dram play in a 1950s village hall, two Elizabethan eras merged into one in crazed mirror image.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013

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