idiot card

noun Television Slang.

Origin:
1955–60

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idiot card definition

n.
a large card that shows people on television what to say. : The floor director held up an idiot card so I could read out the telephone number.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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