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- Geek_show abstract "Geek shows were an act in traveling carnivals and circuses of early America and were often part of a larger sideshow.The Online Etymology Dictionary give the following for \"geek\": \"sideshow freak,\" 1916, U.S. carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck \"a fool, dupe, simpleton\" (1510s), apparently from Low Ger. geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian meaning \"to croak, cackle,\" and also \"to mock, cheat.\" The modern form and the popular use with reference to circus sideshow \"wild men\" is from 1946, in William Lindsay Gresham's novel Nightmare Alley (made into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power).The billed performer's act consisted of a single geek, who stood in center ring to chase live chickens. It ended with the performer biting the chickens' heads off and swallowing them. The geek shows were often used as openers for what are commonly known as freak shows. It was a matter of pride among circus and carnival professionals not to have traveled with a troupe that included geeks. Geeks were sometimes alcoholics or drug addicts, and could be paid with liquor – especially during Prohibition – or with narcotics.".
- Geek_show wikiPageExternalLink www.JoeColeman.com.
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- Geek_show wikiPageRevisionID "706882840".
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink American_Horror_Story:_Freak_Show.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Bart_Carny.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Ben_Woolf.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Bob_Dylan.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Carnivàle.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Category:Circuses.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cruelty_to_animals.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sideshows.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Circus.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Freak.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Freak_show.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Geek_Love.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Highway_61_Revisited.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Humbug_(The_X-Files).
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Jeffrey_Combs.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Joe_Coleman_(painter).
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Katherine_Dunn.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Luther_the_Geek.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Marvel_Noir.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Nightmare_Alley.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Nightmare_Alley_(film).
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Norman_Osborn.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Sideshow.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink The_Enigma_(performer).
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink The_Simpsons.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink The_Wizard_of_Gore_(2007_film).
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink The_X-Files.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Traveling_carnival.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Troma_Entertainment.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Tyrone_Power.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Uncle_Ben.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink Vulture_(comics).
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLink William_Lindsay_Gresham.
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLinkText "Geek show".
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLinkText "geek show".
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLinkText "geek".
- Geek_show wikiPageWikiLinkText "sideshow geek".
- Geek_show wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- Geek_show subject Category:Circuses.
- Geek_show subject Category:Cruelty_to_animals.
- Geek_show subject Category:Sideshows.
- Geek_show hypernym Act.
- Geek_show type Band.
- Geek_show type Right.
- Geek_show type Show.
- Geek_show comment "Geek shows were an act in traveling carnivals and circuses of early America and were often part of a larger sideshow.The Online Etymology Dictionary give the following for \"geek\": \"sideshow freak,\" 1916, U.S. carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck \"a fool, dupe, simpleton\" (1510s), apparently from Low Ger.".
- Geek_show label "Geek show".
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- Geek_show sameAs Q5529804.
- Geek_show wasDerivedFrom Geek_show?oldid=706882840.
- Geek_show isPrimaryTopicOf Geek_show.