Brit-com

See also: Britcom

English

Etymology

From the first syllables of British and comedy. Possibly a deliberate rhyme of the word sitcom.

Noun

Brit-com (plural Brit-coms)

(television, informal) A British comedy, particularly one with a format consisting of several short skits.
- 2007, Paul Challen, The House That Hugh Laurie Built: An Unauthorized Biography and Episode Guide., →ISBN, page 59:
  Those Brit critics, recalling Laurie's days of the slightly undignified do-what-you-have-to-to-get-ahead routine of a young British actor on the way up are past him, like to imply that his new life — what some of them have called his “reinvention” — as an American star has only come about because of his days in the Brit-com boot camp of the 1980s and '90s.
- 2009, Jason Holt, The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News, →ISBN, page 220:
  In an episode of the Brit-com Blackadder, Dr. Samuel Johnson boasts that his just-completed dictionary contains every single word in the English language, and in response Blackadder wishes Dr. Johnson his enthusiastic “contrafibularities.
- 2011, Grant Morrison, Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, →ISBN, page 314:
  They were superhumans in the noncostumed, hard-as-nails Brit-com tradition that Ellis had honed to a knife edge, dressed in white suits, leather catsuits, and hoodies.

单词	Brit-com
释义	Brit-com See also: Britcom English Etymology From the first syllables of British and comedy. Possibly a deliberate rhyme of the word sitcom. Noun Brit-com (plural Brit-coms) (television, informal) A British comedy, particularly one with a format consisting of several short skits. 2007, Paul Challen, The House That Hugh Laurie Built: An Unauthorized Biography and Episode Guide., →ISBN, page 59: Those Brit critics, recalling Laurie's days of the slightly undignified do-what-you-have-to-to-get-ahead routine of a young British actor on the way up are past him, like to imply that his new life — what some of them have called his “reinvention” — as an American star has only come about because of his days in the Brit-com boot camp of the 1980s and '90s. 2009, Jason Holt, The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News, →ISBN, page 220: In an episode of the Brit-com Blackadder, Dr. Samuel Johnson boasts that his just-completed dictionary contains every single word in the English language, and in response Blackadder wishes Dr. Johnson his enthusiastic “contrafibularities. 2011, Grant Morrison, Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, →ISBN, page 314: They were superhumans in the noncostumed, hard-as-nails Brit-com tradition that Ellis had honed to a knife edge, dressed in white suits, leather catsuits, and hoodies.
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