cue card

American

noun

Television.

a large card, out of range of the camera, on which words or phrases have been printed in large letters for the speaker or performer to read or use as a memory aid during a program.

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cue card

“We’ve used that cue card, like, 15 times.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2025

Forced to stay, he displayed his typical incompetence, mistakenly reading the entirety of a cue card aloud on the air: "We'll stay on the air until a winner is declared. Take off glasses, look concerned."

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023

A few hours before the last episode of the season Saturday, the TV show’s Instagram account posted a cue card saying, “we’ll miss you, Cecily.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

A classic example is the view of the "cue card", or "clapperboard", that Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders used in his onboard "home movies".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2022

Ms. Whitlock exclaimed like she was reading it off a cue card.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds

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