I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stand-up row (= a very angry row )
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That night there was a stand-up row among the four kidnappers.
stand-up comedian (= someone who tells jokes to an audience )
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He started as a stand-up comedian .
stand-up comedy (= performances with one person telling jokes alone )
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He developed a stand-up comedy act.
stand-up comic
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a stand-up comic
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■ NOUN
comedian
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Robert Benchley, a writer turned stand-up comedian who pioneered television-type comedy in his short films.
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That double standard was the underbelly of every easy laugh stand-up comedians got when they did hooker jokes.
comedy
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His starting point was stand-up comedy the thing he still does best, in 15-minute monologues at the start of every show.
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I had a girlfriend, Lisa DeLarios, who went to New York, and was doing great stand-up comedy .
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Other tales that make up the show are obviously fictional: the stuff of stand-up comedy .
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Or a president of the Board of Supervisors whose real job is stand-up comedy .
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Throughout the first decade of television, the dominant influence was what would now be called stand-up comedy .
comic
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His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event.
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Gerald Ford, as a speaker, was the exact opposite of a stand-up comic .
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There were more than fourteen acts, from stand-up comics to bawdy singalongs.
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Exposure on his show is sought by politicians as well as screen celebrities, authors as well as stand-up comics , athletes and rappers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a stand-up mirror
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People paid $100 each to hear Quayle speak at a stand-up reception.
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Best stand-up performance:! off!
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He ate fried cabbage in stand-up cafes.
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If there were tragedy clubs at which people came to watch stand-up tragedians, Mr Brown would be a star.
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Or a president of the Board of Supervisors whose real job is stand-up comedy.
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Other tales that make up the show are obviously fictional: the stuff of stand-up comedy.
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Robert Benchley, a writer turned stand-up comedian who pioneered television-type comedy in his short films.
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Successive personnel managers had always caved in to his demands as they knew full well that Clasper would win a stand-up fight.
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There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format.
II. noun
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Britain's top stand-up apparently is Sean Lock.
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By the time we opened I was practically doing stand-up out there.
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Then they cut to a light-skinned black woman doing a stand-up in front of a building that looked familiar.