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peep-show|ˈpiːpʃəʊ|
[f. peep v.2 or n.2 + show n.]
A small exhibition of pictures, etc., viewed through a magnifying lens inserted in a small orifice. Also fig. and attrib.
1851Househ. Words II. 290/1 There were tambourines, books, work-boxes..peep-show boxes, all kinds of boxes. 1861in Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 88/1 Being a cripple, I am obliged to exhibit a small peep-show. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. vi, A Peep-show which had originally started with the Battle of Waterloo, and had since made it every other battle of later date. 1869Spurgeon J. Ploughm. Talk 18 As boys see sights in a peepshow at our fair. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 25 The peep-shows which Nature provides with such endless variety for her children. 1894[see donkey-ride s.v. donkey 3 a]. 1914G. B. Shaw Misalliance 67, I did a cheap trip to Folkestone. I spent sevenpence on dropping pennies into silly automatic machines and peepshows of rowdy girls having a jolly time. 1937L. MacNeice Poems 110 It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow. 1941J. Masefield In Mill 110, I had seen him box in one of the little primitive peep-show cinemas. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 48/1 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male is a penny arcade peep show given the chrome treatment of scientific charts and figures. 1973Times 22 Mar. 8/7 The book⁓shops, the peep shows, the pornographic cinemas..are all nasty. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 1/3 It sits in leased quarters on the eighth floor of a commercial building in a neighborhood of numerous adult book-stores and peep-show parlors on 9th street in Washington. |