green room

See also: greenroom

English

Etymology

Attested at least as early as 1701.

Noun

green room (plural green rooms)

1. In a television studio, theatre or concert hall, the room where performers await their entrance.
2. (surfing) The inside of a tube (i.e. of a wave making a tube).

   1996: Never quite got covered up, but stood in the doorway to the green room with the lip feathering over my shoulders several times — Surfer Bob [1]

Synonyms

• (room for performers): tiring-room, tiring-house

Translations

room for the performers

• Finnish: lämpiö (fi)
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• Russian: артисти́ческое фойе́ n (artistíčeskoje fojé), актёрская убо́рная f (aktjórskaja ubórnaja)