Meanings
plural kid shows
- 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 391 more example
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
Origin
Some sources suggest that these shows are aimed at children, others that the performers are regarded as children.
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