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dead air

dead air

noun

Definition of dead air

: a period of silence especially during a broadcast

Recent Examples on the Web

//Open mouth, insert foot One problem with the 24/7 news cycle is people have to keep talking to avoid dead air on television.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, "3 Thoughts on Aztecs’ 23-14 win over UCLA," 8 Sep. 2019
//The Coliseum is not a homer-happy ballpark because of its deep fences and dead air, but the A’s homer hitters are not intimidated.
— Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, "New pitcher Puk and old ballpark give A’s big advantage," 21 Aug. 2019
//With so many lulls in competitive play, the Thomas & Mack Center can quickly bounce between deafening chants for Tacko Fall, and dead air ripe for shouting at the All-Stars sitting courtside.
— Jake Fischer, SI.com, "‘They Saw the Future.’ Clipper Darrell Relishes Kawhi Leonard, Paul George Blockbuster," 6 July 2019
//Hold music is engineered to fill dead air and keep people on the line until help arrives.
— Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, "CVS Hold Music Divides the Nation: ‘Enraging’ or ‘Hypnotizing’?," 24 July 2018
//How many times did their censors have to give us dead air time because somebody was swearing?
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, "TML: USGA made its golf course the story, not its U.S. Open winner," 18 June 2018
//And if broadcasting that dead air was, indeed, a mistake, somebody just tossed approximately $5 million in advertising cash out the window.
— Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, "Super Bowl 2018: And the most talked-about commercial is ... dead air," 4 Feb. 2018
//The on-stage costume changes also felt uncoordinated and led to moments of dead air.
— Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, "'¡Bienvenidos Blancos! or Welcome White People': A chaotic mix of identity, Cuban history and white privilege," 22 Apr. 2018
//Kohn and Silverstein, who also cowrote the script, have a tenuous grasp of comedic timing, often leaving a vacuum of dead air inside which the actors flail.
— Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader, "There's something ugly about I Feel Pretty," 20 Apr. 2018

First Known Use of dead air

circa 1943, in the meaning defined above

Dictionary Entries near dead air

dead and buried