Noun
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medicine show (plural medicine shows)
A traveling presentation which sells miracle cures and other products between various entertainment acts.
Apart from learning how to exist on one meal a day and other artistic exercises, he worked at an open-air park show, sang and yodelled with any band that would have him, and worked with a traveling medicine show. Source: Internet
On occasion, a medicine show would come through the area, and Hurt recalled that one of them wanted to hire him: "One of them wanted me, but I said no because I just never wanted to get away from home." Source: Internet
Early jug bands were typically made up of African American vaudeville and medicine show musicians. Source: Internet
When asked if his wisecracking and talking on the bandstand came from his medicine show experience, he said it did not. Source: Internet