quick-change artist
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
38
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An entertainer whose performances involve rapid changes of costume.
Example Sentences
- "Only then Nombe must be something of a quick-change artist since but a little while before she was beyond doubt personating the dead Mameena."
- "[T]he lead can change hands in this tournament faster than a quick-change artist's costume."
- "Here, too . . . are a kindly priest, a mysterious hermit, a good-hearted mother, a love-smitten young noblewoman, flashing swordplay, and taverns and palaces teeming with cooks and bakers and servants and idlers and criminals, all brought to vivid life by a well-chosen dozen-member cast of quick-change artists."
- "Mr. Churchill, with his well-known ability as a quick-change artist, had become a full-blooded protectionist"
- "The worst part, the refugees say, is maneuvering survival in a war whose combatants are often quick-change artists, looking like a neighbor by day and a killer by night."
- "Pharmaceutical manufacturers have already been hampered by HIV's talent as a quick-change artist."