kayfabed
Syllables: kay·fabed/ˈkeɪfeɪbd/
kayfabed adjective: of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged. Also the simple past and past participle of kayfabe.
Adjective
kayfabed (not comparable)
- Of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged.
- While some respectable sporting journals, most significantly Ring Magazine, continued to offer balanced (but kayfabed) coverage of wrestling, the ballyhoo-filled wrestling magazines came to be the main source of printed information for devotees.2006, Scott M. Beekman, Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America, Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 97
- He also lived in the bizarre, hazy world of half-truth, half-kayfabed fiction that wrestling in 2007 had become. Lest we forget just how far the line between reality and storyline was blurred, WWE refused to acknowledge the death of Sherri Martel because it would undermine the Vince is dead angle.2008, Scott Keith, “Conclusion”, in Dungeon of Death: Chris Benoit and the Hart Family Curse, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press Books, Kensington Publishing, →ISBN, page 193
Also used as
kayfabed is also the simple past and past participle of kayfabe.
Origin of kayfabed
From kayfabe + -ed.
Questions about kayfabed
- What does kayfabed mean?
- Kayfabed means of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged.
- What part of speech is kayfabed?
- Kayfabed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce kayfabed?
- Kayfabed is pronounced /ˈkeɪfeɪbd/.
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