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show-run

show-run is the alternative form of showrun.

Meaning of showrun

Verb

showrun (third-person singular simple present showruns, present participle showrunning, simple past showran, past participle showrun)

  1. (rare, transitive) To act as a showrunner for (a television show).
    • But she dreams of having, and show-running, her own television program. In May, she’ll perform two nights as her character at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn — a neighborhood that character would probably struggle to find.2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times

Forms of show-run

third-person singular presentshow-runs
present participleshow-running
pastshow-ran
past participleshow-run

Questions about show-run

What is show-run the alternative form of?
Show-run is the alternative form of showrun.

Words near show-run in the dictionary

  1. show-offs
  2. show-offy
  3. show-out
  4. show-outs
  5. show-ran
  6. show-run
  7. show-running
  8. show-runs
  9. show-stealing
  10. show-stone
  11. show-stones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: show-run (page history and authors); showrun (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.

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