standee
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English
Standees (sense 1) in a bus in Singapore
Larger-than-life standees (sense 2) of celebrities in front of the Rose Theatre Brampton in Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stanˈdiː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /stænˈdi/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Hyphenation: stand‧ee
Noun
standee (plural standees)
- Somebody who is forced to stand up, for example, on a crowded bus.
- 1959 September, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 430–431:
- Recently I received a letter from Mr. A. H. Maclean, who travelled north by the 11-coach "Flying Scotsman", and remarked that the train "was filled to capacity and we were forced to stand in the corridor"—for nearly 270 miles— [...] Obviously the diesel was working well below her load capacity on this schedule and some addition to the formation ought to have been made to accommodate the standees.
- A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), for instance of a celebrity, often displayed for advertising and promotional purposes.
- Synonym: cut-out
- He took a picture of me with a standee of Darth Vader at the premiere of Star Wars: Episode III.
- A board game piece made of cardboard inserted into a plastic base.
