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Definition of No-show
1. Noun. A guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation.
2. Noun. Someone who shirks duty.
Definition of No-show
1. Noun. (idiomatic) An absence; somebody who doesn't show up or a failure to make a schedule appearance, especially at one's place of employment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of No-show
Literary usage of No-show
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Let alone me," sticks in Orth'ris, " but that's like life. Them wot's really
fitted to decorate society get no show, ..."
2. Contemporary Memoirs of Russia, from the Year 1727-1744 by Cristof Hermann Manstein (1856)
"They made no show of opposition, and left her to act as she pleased. Sentinels were
then posted at all the doors and avenues. ..."
3. Poems You Ought to Know by Ellsworth Young (1903)
""O, no," said Joe, "Hain't hed no show," An' then he'd look up at the clock ...
"I tell ye, Joe, Yer hain't no show; Yer too dern patient"—ther hull raft ..."
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