Word.ws English Dictionary

John Audley

John Audley proper noun: a fictitious person mentioned (e.g. "is John Audley there?") as a signal to shorten the performance of a show, to make room for a fresh audience.

Proper noun

John Audley

  1. (slang) A fictitious person mentioned (e.g. "is John Audley there?") as a signal to shorten the performance of a show, to make room for a fresh audience.

Forms of John Audley

alternative formJohn Orderly

Questions about John Audley

What does John Audley mean?
John Audley means a fictitious person mentioned (e.g. "is John Audley there?") as a signal to shorten the performance of a show, to make room for a fresh audience.
What part of speech is John Audley?
John Audley is a proper noun.

Words near John Audley in the dictionary

  1. john
  2. John 50
  3. John 50s
  4. John A. Grindle
  5. John Asscroft
  6. John Audley
  7. John Barleycorn
  8. John Bircher
  9. John Blunt
  10. John Bull
  11. John Bullish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: John Audley (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “John Audley.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/john_audley. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.