crowd-puller

Related to crowd-puller: crowdedness

crowd-puller

Something or someone that is popular and attracts a large audience. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. The critics are saying that this film is going to be a real crowd-puller, so we should buy our tickets before they sell out!
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See also:
  • chip
  • chips
  • up on (one's) ear
  • Two Bob
  • (as) dead as mutton
  • dead as mutton
  • mutton
  • cat's pajamas
  • one of the boys
  • one of the lads
References in periodicals archive
A crowd-puller and a crowd pleaser - Henry Metcalfe and Joe McElderry in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Pictures: MARK YEOMAN
REVIEW: MUSICAL Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
He is a genuine crowd-puller. Just like you wanted to see John McEnroe or Diego Maradona.
Kapil Dev: Yuvraj a crowd-puller like McEnroe, Maradona
HE was the biggest crowd-puller the sport has ever known.
This week Scurlogue Champ; GREYHOUND GREATS
Crowd-puller: Pete Waterman introduces the model steam trains at Kingsbury Water Park.
Waterman steamed up over train party
London, Feb.2 ( ANI ): Britain's fallen world champion David Haye is no longer a big-money crowd-puller, it seems.
Klitschkos term 'loser' Haye's demands as 'ridiculous'
The shop, in Bridge Street, is the chas rity's ninth to be opened by the charity and has already proved to be a big crowd-puller with its wide selection of donated items, including toys and clothes.
Chopper fly-past marks opening of charity shop
the charity is going to all three party conferences and hope Grant's stardust will be a crowd-puller.
Star Hugh outshines Tory boss
But Thursday's crowd-puller was their first official engagement, with Miss Middleton invited as a guest of honour, a Palace spokesman said, adding that they wanted their joint debut appearance to be in Anglesey.
Chorus of cheers for Prince William and Kate
And while in the forestry section, watch out for Titan the Robot - always a crowd-puller.
SHOW INFO
Over 17,500 people flocked to the sell-out launch of Taste of Birmingham in 2006, and this year's event - backed by the Birmingham Post and Mail - promises to be even more of a crowd-puller, with an estimated 25,000 people expected.
Egging people on for food festival; Channel 4 Presents taste of Birmingham
And he has now started drawing up parade plans for what could be the "biggest crowd-puller" in Teesside history.
Victory parade is in the pipeline
More than 120,000 advance tickets were sold for the show and with 300 companies exhibiting more than 700 vehicles it is no suprise the event proved such an crowd-puller.
Drive: Record crowds at British Motor Show
HG, 1995, which opened in September on the site of the Clink Street prison close to the Thames at Southwark, always promised to be a crowd-puller: the medieval prison was so notorious that we Brits still refer to incarceration as being "in the clink"; but it wasn't well-known that parts of that venerable carceral institution still existed as a vast labyrinth of subterranean chambers extending almost as far as the disused Bankside power station, which is poised to become the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art.
Boxing Tilda
Both performers are committed and thoughtful in the face of unfamiliar repertory, and indeed it is to their credit that the disc contains not one song which could be described as a crowd-puller. Those of us still disinclined to explore beyond Peters vol.
Schubert: Songs to Poems by Friedrich Schiller
A real crowd-puller, they are dropping in at Moniaive for a gig at the Craigdarroch tonight.
An Electric evening