ambush television
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.53 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A television format in which guests are deliberately tricked into embarrassing or upsetting confrontations.
Uncountable
noun
A television format in which a hidden camera captures a public prank played on unsuspecting people.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The reasoning usually goes along the lines: ' Talk shows, which started out innocently, have degenerated into ambush television'."
- "The case had focused attention on “ambush” television and titillating daytime TV tactics, with Schmitz's lawyers arguing that the show misled him into believing he was going to meet the woman of his dreams."
- "Having been a former high school cheerleader and beauty queen, Birdee is remembered by everyone and pitied for her embarrassment on "ambush" television."
- "An "ambush" television interview conducted on a public street does not violate the federal wiretap statute."
- "An increasingly controversial incarnation of reality television is the hidden camera show, or “ambush television,” in which a prank is played at the expense of an unsuspecting victim."
- "Politicians have learned to apply a fixed smile to disguise the blind panic as Chaser representative goes about his line in ambush television."