CENTRAL CASTING

PRONUNCIATION: (sen-truhl KAS-ting)

MEANING: adjective: Stereotypical.
noun: A company or department that provides actors for minor or background roles, often based on stereotypical appearances.

ETYMOLOGY: After Central Casting, a company founded in 1925 to cast actors for minor roles in film and television. Earliest documented use: 1941.
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VENTRAL CASTING - filling a mold through an orifice in its back

CENTRAL COSTING - a way of minimizing through scale the expenditures that will be needed for a particular project

CENTRAL COASTING - a sardonic way of describing the futility of making an island paradise, since the coast is by definition the periphery