chewing scenery

To overact, particularly in film and television.

William Shatner chews mad amounts of scenery as a part of his daily breakfast routine.

by Damn Hooligan September 18, 2003

screever

An English term for pavement artist, chalk artist, street painter, also known as a sidewalk artist in the US, or madonarri in Italy. A busking artist who creates original or reproduction artworks, typically for public donations.

"Today I'm a screever, and as you can see, a screever's an artist of 'ighest degree" - sings Bert in Mary Poppins, in the song Chim-chimeny.

The word is also used in George Orwell's "Down and out in London and Paris", and can be found in some older English dictionaries.

by ullarty March 21, 2011

screener

A film or movie that is presented to potential buyers like cinema chains.

I downloaded a screener of Spiderman 2 yesterday. It was poor quality unfortunately.

by james September 20, 2004

Screenwriter

The Inventor of a film.

The most under-valued person in the filmmaking process.

Person#1: "Casablanca, what a masterpiece. You know it took four screenwriters to write that?

Person#2: "What's a Screenwriter?"

by jazz4 March 27, 2011

Screengrab

Basically a screenshot, but for people who aren't current with technology.

Mom: Look honey, I learned how to take a screengrab!
Daughter: mom it's called a screenshot

by Voidularr February 17, 2018

screener

A pre vhs tape, sent to rental stores, and various other places for promotional use. A screener is supplied on a vhs tape, and is usually in a 4:3 (fullscreen) a/r, although letterboxed screeners are sometimes found. The main draw back is a "ticker" (a message that scrolls past at the bottom of the screen, with the copyright and anti-copy telephone number). Also, if the tape contains any serial numbers, or any other markings that could lead to the source of the tape, these will have to be blocked, usually with a black mark over the section. This is sometimes only for a few seconds, but unfortunately on some copies this will last for the entire film, and some can be quite big. Depending on the equipment used, screener quality can range from excellent if done from a MASTER copy, to very poor if done on an old VHS recorder thru poor capture equipment on a copied tape. Most screeners are transferred to VCD, but a few attempts at SVCD have occured, some looking better than others.

(Sometimes abbreviated with SCR, DVDSCR.)

Carry.Me.Home.LIMITED.SVCD.DVDSCR-Pv

Suspect.Zero.SCREENER-VideoCD

by inane5 February 8, 2005

scenery of speech

The words one uses in their day to day life.

Harry: "I feel some people really limit themselves by not being creative and making up new words."
Tom: "yes, their scenery of speech is not very interesting, thus making them a lot less fun to be around. It is truely sad."

When someone is telling you the long version of a story they are "taking the scenic route to get to their point".

by Olivia Anderson April 3, 2006