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- [noh shoh]
- /noʊ ʃoʊ/
- /nəʊ ʃəʊ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [noh shoh]
- /noʊ ʃoʊ/
Definitions of no-show word
- noun no-show a person who makes a reservation and neither uses nor cancels it. 1
- noun no-show a person who purchases an admission ticket and doesn't use it. 1
- noun no-show any absentee. 1
- adjective no-show not appearing as scheduled or expected. 1
- noun no-show failure to be present 1
- noun no-show sb invited who isn't present 1
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Origin of no-show
First appearance:
before 1940 One of the 7% newest English words
An Americanism dating back to 1940-45; no2 + show
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for No-show
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
no-show popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 50% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
Synonyms for no-show
adj no-show
- absent — If someone or something is absent from a place or situation where they should be or where they usually are, they are not there.
- awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
noun no-show
- awols — a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
- deserter — A deserter is someone who leaves their job in the armed forces without permission.
- draft dodger — a person who evades or attempts to evade compulsory military service.
- backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- escaper — Person who escapes.
adjective no-show
- elsewhere — In, at, or to some other place or other places.
- ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- hooky — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
Antonyms for no-show
adjective no-show
- attending — having primary responsibility for a patient.
See also
Matching words
- Words starting with n
- Words starting with no
- Words starting with nos
- Words starting with nosh
- Words starting with nosho
- Words starting with noshow