showrun

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English

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Etymology

Back-formation from showrunner.

Verb

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

  1. (television, rare, transitive) To act as a showrunner for (a television show).
    • 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:
      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.

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