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demo
noun- a demonstration model or recording US, 1963
- I don’t have to sell this ripper nineteen-sixty-eight John Olsen neither, because it’s my own demo[.] — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 146, 1974
- You don’t happen to have a tape or a demo that we might listen to? — King of Comedy, 1976
- “Mebbe you should let me decide that -” “What?” “Whether she’s very good. Got a demo?” “Eh?” “Cassette.” — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 70, 1984
- I wanted the money to make a demo [demonstration record] and go into the record business. — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 89, 1989
- You guys are an unsigned band, and you broke into the radio station to get your demo tape played on the air? — Airheads, 1994
- Bobby Beck, the owner, used to let me come in and play drums on the demo kit. — Empire Records, 1995
- They can listen to a demo and tell right away if they can break it. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 69, 1999
- an act of having sex in front of observers AUSTRALIA
Apparently this had a vogue amongst yobbo blokes during the 70s. - “What about a demo from Disneyland?” called the Humdinger. “Yeah!” chorused several urgers. “Come on, Disneyland. Pull ’em down and let’s see you give the girls a bang. Hey, Sandpiper!” But his plans floundered. Disneyland wouldn’t take them off. — David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, p. 303, 1971
- [D]emo: demonstration, usually referring to sex. — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 28, 1977
- a political demonstration AUSTRALIA, 1904
- I’ve just heard on 2GF that nine people from the PAG have been arrested as a result of a peaceful demo over my bashing. — Ray Denning, Prison Diaries, p. 62, 1978
- Would anything get them going again. Put a bit of spark in the demo? — Harrison Biscuit, The Search for Savage Henry, p. 68, 1995
- — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 150, 1998
- Fair trade demo attracts record numbers. — The Guardian, 20 June 2002
- a demonstration of how something works or how an action or activity ought to be done UK, 1961
- I’ve gotta give a demo of the drool-proof interface; how does it work again? — Eric S. Raymond, The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 139, 1993
- demolition US, 1943
- [B]ig baskets like you see demo boys filling up with stuff when they’re knocking a dump down. — Alfred Draper, Swansong for a Rare Bird, 1970
- a laboratory pipette used to smoke crack cocaine US
- — Terry Williams, Crackhouse, p. 152, 1992
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