picture show

[ pik-cher shoh ]

nounOlder Use.

Origin of picture show

First recorded in 1865–70, in sense “exhibition of pictures” and in 1910–15 for current senses

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Improbably, Sharknado had become the social media version of The Rocky Horror picture show.
‘Sharknado 2’ in Winter: Has the Franchise Jumped the Shark? | Jason Lynch | July 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Cult films are a genre of their own; ‘The Rocky Horror picture show’ has been popular for forty years now.
Punks, UFOs, and Heroin: How ‘Liquid Sky’ Became a Cult Movie | Daniel Genis | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The Last picture show was a rare example of the right director getting the right material at the right stage in his career.
Larry McMurtry: How I Write | Noah Charney | April 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
I thought this might actually be like going to an ultraconservative version of the Rocky Horror picture show.
Braving the Atlas Shrugged Crowd | Allen Barra | April 17, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
She had just won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Last picture show.
I Got Betty White Her Job | Steve Friess | September 17, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST

A richly coloured watering-place slid into view, as in a moving-picture show.
A Traveller in War-Time | Winston Churchill
And would steal once too often, for the moving-picture show, and gets herself into a corner!
"Persons Unknown" | Virginia Tracy
Jim smiled reminiscently and then said, "I'm going to start an ice cream and soft drink joint next to the moving picture show."
Still Jim | Honor Willsie Morrow
I believe Id rather live here, where you can walk to church and school and to the groceries and picture show and everything.
Betty Lee, Freshman | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
She quite forgot that he had taken her to a moving-picture show once in two weeks.
The Amazing Inheritance | Frances R. Sterrett

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