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SIDE SHOW

Specialty Definition: SIDE SHOW

Domain	Definition
Fine Arts	A subsidiary show accompanying or part of a main exhibition (as of a circus): a minor attraction. . . also bid show, ten in one. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Usage: SIDE SHOW

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Mean Moe's Side Show (1963)

Scrappy's Side Show (1939)

Side Show Fakir (1938)

The Side Show Mystery (1932)

Side Show (1931)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: SIDE SHOW

Domain	Title
Books	Bill Arp, So Called: Side Show of the Southern Side of the War (reference) Co Aytch Maury Grays First Tennessee Regiment: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Image Slideshow: SIDE SHOW

Photo Album: SIDE SHOW

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Better than the side show. Credit: Library of Congress.		Pip and Flip, twins from Yucatan, with World Circus side show, Coney Island. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland. Credit: Library of Congress.		Poster for a side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: SIDE SHOW

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
side show	62
side show freak	23
side show bob	14
side show toy	13
jim rose circus side show	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: SIDE SHOW

Language		Translations for "SIDE SHOW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		странично събитие (sideshow), странично занимание (sideline, sideshow), странична случка (sideshow, underaction), маловажно събитие, маловажно случка. (various references)

French		spectacle forain, théâtré forain, exhibition foraine. (various references)

German		Nebenvorstellung (sideshow). (various references)

Hungarian		mellékkiállítás (side-show). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		余興 (entertainment). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よきょう (entertainment). (various references)

Pig Latin		idesay owshay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: SIDE SHOW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: sideshow.
	Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-o-s-s-w"
	-1 letter: howdies, swished.
	-2 letters: dishes, dowses, hissed, hoised, hoises, howdie, showed, whosis, wished, wishes, wissed.
	-3 letters: dhows, doses, dowie, dowse, eidos, hides, hoise, hosed, hoses, howes, sheds, shews, shied, shies, shoed, shoes, shows, sides, sowed, swish, whids, whose, wides, wised, wises.
	-4 letters: dews, dhow, dies, dish, diss, does, dose, doss, dows, edhs, hews, hide, hied.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-o-s-s-w"
	+1 letter: sideshows.
	+2 letters: dishtowels, shadowiest.
	+3 letters: shadowiness, swordfishes.
	+4 letters: thistledowns.
	+5 letters: downrightness, shadowinesses.
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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography

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