tentpole

See also: tent-pole and tent pole

English

Etymology

From tent +‎ pole.

Noun

tentpole (plural tentpoles)

1. One of the poles used to hold up a tent.
2. (US, attributive, figurative, film, television, theater) A large-scale entertainment production that is a major source of revenue for its studio, television network, or investors.
   • 2016 May 18, David Sims, “The Outcry Against the All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Remake Gets Louder”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     His [James Rolfe's] reasoning dances around the simple fact that has set this innocuous-seeming movie apart from its fellow blockbusters this summer—that it’s a tentpole genre film starring women.

Derived terms

• tentpole film
• tentpole movie
• tentpole project
• tentpole property

Translations

pole used to hold up a tent

• Arabic: بِوَان m (biwān), عَمُود البَيْت m (ʕamūd al-bayt)
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• Finnish: telttakeppi
• French: mât de tente m
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• German: Zeltstange f
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• Greek:

  Ancient: κάμαξ f (kámax)

• Indonesian: tiang kemah, batang tenda, tongkat tenda
• Russian: сто́йка для пала́тки f (stójka dlja palátki), сто́йка для те́нта f (stójka dlja ténta)
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• Ukrainian: сті́йка для наме́ту (stíjka dlja namétu), опо́рна тичи́на те́нту (opórna tyčýna téntu)

Verb

tentpole (third-person singular simple present tentpoles, present participle tentpoling, simple past and past participle tentpoled)

1. (broadcasting) To schedule a popular programme between two newer or less popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch them.

   Coordinate term: hammock