geezer teaser

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A film, most often an action film released direct to video and primarily distributed via video on demand (VOD), for which older, well-known male actors ("geezers") are billed in lead or co-lead roles and prominently featured (teased) in promotional material, but only appear sporadically during the film itself. derogatory,slang
    — One of my clients calls it a ‘geezer teaser’: You have Bruce Willis at the intro of the movie, so people are like, Great, this is a Bruce Willis movie. But he’s actually a secondary character who shows up sporadically.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see geezer, teaser.

词形变化

geezer teasers plural

词源

First known reference to the term was in a March 2021 Vulture article, in which film distribution executive Adam Champ attributed it to a client.
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