peep show
noun
: an entertainment (such as a film) or object (such as a small picture) that is viewed through a small opening or a magnifying glass and is usually sexually explicit
Examples of peep show in a Sentence
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The absence of partitions that shield from peep shows and contain the sounds and smells of private business is a common complaint on review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor.
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Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 22 Aug. 2025
The outer boroughs look like war zones, ethnic gangs run rampant, midtown is littered with massage parlors and peep shows, and the police have their hands full with militants and double-digit murder rates.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2025
History has shown than when people listen to my music, money tends to flow to bartenders, race tracks, late night greasy spoons, bail bondsman, go kart tracks, tractor pulls, football games, peep shows and several black market vices.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
The episode begins with Lillian (Adina Porter) walking through the red-light district in New York where peep shows cost 25 cents.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
Land enough eggs in his mouth and the anthropomorphized egg would reward the triumphant player with a peep show.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
In many of these exhibition halls, science is presented theatrically, frozen vignettes of wild animals and life-size human dioramas, with darkened lighting in a warren of anthropological peep shows.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
At 17, Kelly worked at a peep show in order to make enough money for her own apartment (Kelly had moved in with boyfriend Rudy because of her parents’ legal issues).
—USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
The movie's finest beat, indeed the only one containing any lasting emotion, takes place between Neeson and Murphy in a peep show booth, where the priest has come to find his daughter in order to finally reveal information that might lead to her birth mom.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
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Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 22 Aug. 2025
The outer boroughs look like war zones, ethnic gangs run rampant, midtown is littered with massage parlors and peep shows, and the police have their hands full with militants and double-digit murder rates.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2025
History has shown than when people listen to my music, money tends to flow to bartenders, race tracks, late night greasy spoons, bail bondsman, go kart tracks, tractor pulls, football games, peep shows and several black market vices.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
The episode begins with Lillian (Adina Porter) walking through the red-light district in New York where peep shows cost 25 cents.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
Land enough eggs in his mouth and the anthropomorphized egg would reward the triumphant player with a peep show.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
In many of these exhibition halls, science is presented theatrically, frozen vignettes of wild animals and life-size human dioramas, with darkened lighting in a warren of anthropological peep shows.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
At 17, Kelly worked at a peep show in order to make enough money for her own apartment (Kelly had moved in with boyfriend Rudy because of her parents’ legal issues).
—USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
The movie's finest beat, indeed the only one containing any lasting emotion, takes place between Neeson and Murphy in a peep show booth, where the priest has come to find his daughter in order to finally reveal information that might lead to her birth mom.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
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“Peep show.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peep%20show. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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