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shiny-floor

shiny-floor adjective: highly produced, extravagant, and spectacular in a tightly-controlled, somewhat formulaic way.

shiny-floor: highly produced, extravagant, and spectacular in a tightly-controlled, somewhat formulaic way
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Adjective

shiny-floor (not comparable)

  1. (UK, informal) Highly produced, extravagant, and spectacular in a tightly-controlled, somewhat formulaic way.
    • Roscoe (2013) describes the trope in talent formats as the big shiny floor moment: You have a factory of formats and each one has to be bigger and better.2014, Annette Hill, Reality TV, page 75
    • Reality television excels at connecting audiences with other people. Shiny-floor shows can connect audiences through the literal representation of live crowds at the venue, participants auditioning and performing on stage, public voting, and live Internet chat.2016, Laurie Ouellette, A Companion to Reality Television, page 126

Examples of shiny-floor in a sentence

  • By the 1980s, there was still huge appeal for what became known as 'shiny-floor' talent shows, especially during weekend primetime.2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
  • A major shiny-floor show in the US market costs more than $2 million per produced episode, sometimes significantly more.2022, Alex Connock, Media Management and Artificial Intelligence:

Origin of shiny-floor

From the large, brightly-lit studios in which popular entertainment shows are often filmed, which tend to include well-polished or illuminated floors.

Questions about shiny-floor

What does shiny-floor mean?
Shiny-floor means highly produced, extravagant, and spectacular in a tightly-controlled, somewhat formulaic way.
How do you use shiny-floor in a sentence?
By the 1980s, there was still huge appeal for what became known as 'shiny-floor' talent shows, especially during weekend primetime.
What part of speech is shiny-floor?
Shiny-floor is an adjective.

Words near shiny-floor in the dictionary

  1. shiny
  2. shiny bum
  3. shiny bums
  4. shiny cowbird
  5. shiny cowbirds
  6. shiny-floor
  7. Shinyanga
  8. shinyleaf
  9. shinza
  10. shinzas
  11. Shinzwani

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