Definitions for sideshow

sideshow side·show

Spelling: [sahyd-shoh]
IPA: /ˈsaɪdˌʃoʊ/

Sideshow is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in sideshow (dehiossw).

Definitions for sideshow

noun

  1. a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
  2. any subordinate event or matter.

Origin of sideshow

An Americanism dating back to 1840-50

Examples for sideshow

The sideshow got a dime of hers before the big show started and again after it ended.

The trial of Morsi, now due to begin February 1, will be just a sideshow.

But drinking seems like a sideshow in these joints, not the main event.

It was all like a county fair of Iowa, only more dignified, with no touch of sideshow.

But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation.

I have wondered sometimes if it were a seat in a sideshow which she had designed for me.

The natural gas boom has become little more than a sideshow.

The more I wrote about her sideshow behavior, the more I felt seeing it in person was my destiny.

A library of trivia, museum of curiosa, sideshow of freaks, and shrine of greatness.

I haven't had a better one since I went to the sideshow at the circus.

Word Value for sideshow
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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