[
US
/ˈnoʊˌʃoʊ/
]
NOUN
- a guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation
- someone who shirks duty
How To Use no-show In A Sentence
- Usually there are cancellations or no-shows, which mean that overbooking is not a problem. Times, Sunday Times
- Thus it was that I dressed in my finest suit, and things looked good for getting a seat: six no-shows at the start of the meal.
- The airlines also employ excellent statisticians who can calculate how many no-shows are likely on a particular flight.
- They believe he's a flake and he's not dedicated to the sport after his no-show.
- Beastie Boys and Hilary Duff also were no-shows for their scheduled backstage moments.
- I said,'Did she tell you Industrial Brush Social Club want to charge us for a no-show ? MR STARLIGHT
- Perhaps someone can ferret out an answer on what the typical/average/median no-show rate is. Much better by day (Jack Bog's Blog)
- The academy also showed that they have respect even for no-shows.
- His no-shows and other distractions began to catch up with him, but no-one in the team had any idea that when we played Queens Park Rangers on New Year's Day of 1974, we would be playing in George's final game for United.
- In the evening the Geek Cruisers had a cheese and wine evening, which was supposed to also include photographs but too many people were no-shows to make it worthwhile.