Definition of "game show" []

• A television show in which contestants compete for prizes by playing games of knowledge or chance. (noun)

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• "I was the chalk-it-up scorekeeper of a local game show at WLB-TV, kind of the Vanna White of my day."
• "There was a person you interviewed in an episode of First Person—Rick Rosner9—whose personal story was that he purposely repeated his senior year in high school several times and then lost on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."