screen tests

Noun

screen test (plural screen tests)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screen, test; a test of, or involving, a screen.
2. A filmed audition to test (and demonstrate) an actor's screen-acting ability and/or suitability for a particular role.
   • Alan Ladd's wife spotted the budding beauty and suggested that Julie attend a screen test for a bit part in something called The Girl and the Gorilla.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 10
3. A test for the presence of a particular substance; such a test that by extension tests for a particular organism or medical condition.
4. (slang, violence) Synonym of rough ride.
   • One of the reasons for the charges was knowledge of a tradition among some police of what they called in Baltimore "a rough ride" (Fernandez, 2015). The practice is to place a handcuffed prisoner face-down in the back of a police van without securing him to the seat, and then intentionally driving...2018 April 10, David E. Barlow, Melissa Hickman Barlow, Police in a Multicultural Society: An American Story, Second Edition, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 287

   Synonyms:

   rough ride

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