Meaning of Seinfeldish | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of the American sitcom Seinfeld, or its main character and star, Jerry Seinfeld.

informal

Examples

“Washington's health clubs serve⟳ the gamut of American yupppiedom, from torture chambers of grunting macho macho men, to Seinfeldish singles scenes, to high-tech palaces for political trophy wives and their over-the-Hill hubbies.”

“In TV the winks range from the casual and occasional (network newswomen appearing as themselves on Murphy Brown) to the deadpan crypto-real (on Seinfeld, comedian Jerry Seinfeld plays a comedian named Jerry, and in one episode he makes a Seinfeldish TV pilot) to the relentlessly ironic (David Letterman satirizing his program⟳, his genre, the entire medium).”

“I tried to look⟳ beyond that, but my Seinfeldish self reared its ugly head and all I could see⟳ were myriads and myriads of germs settling in all the little folds of the chewed gum.”

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