sitcom

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪtˌkɒm/

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Shortening of situation comedy.

sitcom (plural sitcoms)

1. Situation comedy.

   Coordinate terms: romcom, sadcom

• sit-com, sit com

• comedy

sitcom (plural sitcoms)

1. Acronym of single income, two children, oppressive/outrageous mortgage.
   • 1992, Earl G. Hunt, Jr., Recovering the Sacred: Papers From the Sanctuary and the Academy, Jonathan Creek Press, →ISBN, page 254:

     "Today we have Grumps (grim, ruthless, upwardly mobile professionals), Dinks (those with dual-income, no kids), Sitcoms (those with single-income, two children, outrageous mortgages); and, just to recognize the graying populace in this country, Opals (older people with active lifestyles)."

   • 1993, Daniel Moreau, Kiplinger's Facing Forty: How to Deal Successfully with the Changes in Your Life, Kiplinger Books, →ISBN, page 7:

     "There are MINKs (multiple income, no kids) and what may be the acronym of the '90s, SITCOMs (single income, two children, outrageous mortgage)."

   • 2003, Judith Sealander, The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     "By the end of the 1990s, in some circles, parents had become SITCOMS (single income, two children, oppressive mortgage) and those without children were THINKERS (two healthy incomes, no kids, early retirement)."

• SITCOM

• Tomics

From English sitcom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsitkom/,

sitcom (rare)

1. Synonym of tilannekomedia.

• “sitcom”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Borrowed from English sitcom.

• IPA^(key): /sit.kɔm/

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sitcom m (plural sitcoms)

1. sitcom

Unadapted borrowing from English sitcom.

sitcom f (invariable)

1. sitcom (situation-comedy)

Unadapted borrowing from English sitcom.

sitcom (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural sitcoms)

1. sitcom; situation comedy

   Synonym: comédia de situação

Borrowed from English sitcom.

• IPA^(key): /sidˈkom/
• Rhymes: -om
• Syllabification: sit‧com

sitcom m (plural sitcoms)

1. sitcom