Definitions for typecast

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typecast type·cast

Spelling: [tahyp-kast, -kahst]

IPA: /ˈtaɪpˌkæst, -ˌkɑst/

Typecast is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in typecast (acepstty).

Definitions for typecast

adjective

1. (of text to be printed) having the type already cast.

verb (used with object)

1. to cast (a performer) in a role that requires characteristics of physique, manner, personality, etc., similar to those possessed by the performer.
2. to cast (a performer) repeatedly in a kind of role closely patterned after that of the actor's previous successes.
3. to stereotype:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to cast (type).

Origin of typecast

First recorded in 1930-35; type + cast

Examples for typecast

But now our entertainers are so typecast, we force them to specialize.

With the Home Alone canon, Macaulay Culkin was typecast as a prankster from a young age.

So when someone breaks character, we're reminded that people (actually) are too complicated to typecast.

For a time, it seemed she might be typecast, forever playing some version of ethereal.

The Google-mad media have led the actor to be typecast as a creepy character, Malkovich tells Nicole LaPorte.

Silvio Berlusconi certainly knows how to typecast his potential constituency.