borscht circuit


noun
  1. (sometimes initial capital letters) the hotels of the predominantly Jewish resort area in the Catskill Mountains, many of them offering nightclub or cabaret entertainment.

Origin of borscht circuit

1
First recorded in 1935–40; so called, facetiously, from the quantities of borscht consumed there
  • Also called borscht belt .

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How to use borscht circuit in a sentence

  • Such jokes would have made them about as popular as the borscht circuit comedian who told a funny story about Dachau in 1946.

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