exhib

English

Etymology

Clipping.

Noun

exhib (plural exhibs)

1. (informal) An exhibitor.
   • 1945, Billboard, volume 57, number 22:

     If it so happens that the music in the film has not been cleared for public performance for profit — in other words, if the exhib is not cleared for publicly performing any ASCAP music in a film — then the exhibitor is right in the way of a $250 infringement per use for each tune or song.

   • 1971, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session [-Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session], Part 11‎^[1], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 6894:

     Though most sexpo exhibs were reluctant to talk last week, it's clear that porno jitters are again vibrating in Manhattan, this time generated not by threatened police action, but by a series of anonymous bomb threats which gained sudden credibility last Tues night (9) when two pipe bombs exploded during performances at the Doll Theatre at Seventh Ave. at 48th St. and at Hollywood Twin Theatre on Eighth Ave. near 48th.