showrun

English

Alternative forms

• show-run

Etymology

Back-formation from showrunner.

Verb

showrun (third-person singular simple present showruns, present participle showrunning, simple past showran, past participle showrun)

1. (television, rare, transitive) To act as a showrunner for (a television show).
   • 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But she dreams of having, and show-running, her own television program. In May, she’ll perform two nights as her character at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn — a neighborhood that character would probably struggle to find.

Further reading

• “Showrunners « Literal-Minded” — Neal Whitman, blog entry, 2010 January 27.