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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of borscht circuit¹

First recorded in 1935–40; so called, facetiously, from the quantities of borscht consumed there

Example Sentences

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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