kid show
nounEtymology Some sources suggest that these shows are aimed at children, others that the performers are regarded as children.
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A carnival freak show.
- CHARLES E. KELLEY, kid-show midget, whose home is in Birmingham, is employed as an electrician helper at Hunters Point Naval Drydocks, San Francisco.1944, Billboard, volume 56, number 39:
- The next year he framed a bingo game in Cleveland and in 1938 had a kid show on the W. C. (Spike) Huggins West Coast Shows. When war in Europe was declared in 1939 Glacy was touring the Hawaiian Islands with a freak show for E. K. Fernandez.1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 38, page 74: