Big top
Big top noun - A canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance.
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Show
Show noun - An outward and often exaggerated indication of something abstract (as a feeling) for effect.
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- In the first season Monkees episode "The Monkees At The Circus," Micky Dolenz incessantly sings a song from "some old TV show" as the group gets acquainted with the big top.
Source: Actor Allusion / Live-Action TV -
Talent Show: Instead of fighting, they face off in a talent show inside a circus big top.
Source: Web Original / Hotel Haven -
Big Top Pee-Wee features a hermaphrodite in the circus' side show named Shim who has a male left half and female right half (or possibly the other way around).
Source: Hermaphrodite
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Show and Big top. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/big_top/show
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Show or Big top. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/big_top/show.
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