supershow

English

Alternative forms

• super-show

Etymology

From super- +‎ show.

Pronunciation

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Noun

supershow (plural supershows)

1. A large-scale or successful show.
   • 1955, Television magazine, volume 12, numbers 5-12:

     This undoubtedly is the key to why so many of last year's supershows didn't make the grade.

   • 1985, U.S. News and World Report, volume 98, numbers 1-7, page 65:

     Other experts, however, say there is good reason to believe most supershows will continue to be triumphs of scholarship as well as popular attractions.

   • 2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     It could be argued there is a note of shared significance to both deaths. Both feel like reminders that the real divide, so starkly present at this Pharaonic sporting super-show, is between the powerful and the powerless.