green room
See also: greenroom
English
Etymology
Attested at least as early as 1701.
Noun
green room (plural green rooms)
- In a television studio, theatre or concert hall, the room where performers await their entrance.
- (surfing) The inside of a tube (i.e. of a wave making a tube).
- 1996: Never quite got covered up, but stood in the doorway to the green room with the lip feathering over my shoulders several times — Surfer Bob
Synonyms
- (room for performers): tiring-room, tiring-house
Translations
room for the performers
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