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vaudeville

A dead form of entertainment buried with TV as its casket. Back in the days of vaudeville, everyone had a specialty. Certain vaudevillian performers were tumblers. As dead as ska but also it is actually dead and more people like vaudeville than ska.
You know what else you can't see? The writing on the wall! Vaudeville's dead!
vaudeville by 6:47 AM December 28, 2005
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Vaudeville

Incredibly stupid but funny stuff like hitting a short fat englishman with a pie, telling jokes in a loud voice and the straight man would say something like "I Don't know why do" if you are a young brat you will not remember Bugs Bunny who used a lot of Vaudeville references. Brats with your portable gaming consoles and hair gel!
Vaudeville
Vaudeville by marmaloonbabushka February 17, 2010

Vaudeville Starfish

The act of flailing arms and legs in the shape of an X to express excitement or general happiness. (Arms,legs, and head in the shape of an X, resembles a starfish)

This action must be done quickly and only last for a moment.
Ashley: "Hey Kris, quick! Do the Vaudeville Starfish!"

Kris: *Positions arms,legs, and head in the shape of an X, resembling a starfish*

trash and vaudeville

an amazing store in ny, consisting of two parts. Trash upstaits and Vaudeville downstairs. Located on st. marcs.(epiphany of hipsterness) You can find the best jeans and jackets there.there is also a wall of celebrity signatures. including bands such as the ramones and blondie. it is the city's most famous shithole. talk to jimmy, the forever tight pants wearing owner. best store ever. dont go there if youre a tourist.
"whered you get those amazing skinny jeans? and that raddddd jacket?"

"trash and vaudeville... duh."

vaudevillian pop punk 

The genre that the emo trinity band, Panic! at the Disco described their music as.
Vaudevillian pop punk is to Panic! at the Disco as ukulele screamo is to Twenty One Pilots

Vanderville 

The new name for Manson Secondary School, named because the principal is a dickweed who shows no personal respect for students liberties, freedoms, or concerns.
Although the handbook says I can use my cell phone at lunch, he took it away.
He won't let us drive anymore, even though everyone else dating back to our parents have been able to.

"Dude, it doesn't matter what the handbook says, all the rules are made up by him, this place if fucking Vanderville"
Vanderville by Manson Student April 14, 2009

vaudevillain

Someone who "plays da bad guy" during a multi-act stage-show.
In "Huckleberry Finn", da King and da Duke were both just "regular rapscallions" who were out to cheat their audience-members, and so one could indeed accurately describe them as real "vaudevillains".
vaudevillain by QuacksO April 5, 2020
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