Chaplin
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- proper noun
- /ˈtʃæplɪn/
- A blind girl had just handed Charlie Chaplin a flower, and my father, the projectionist, was supposed to switch reels.
- Charlie Chaplin
- films of Chaplin
- Chaplin and Buster Keaton
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Watch on YouTubeIf it's somebody else, I would say Charlie Chaplin's A Night in the Show.
- If it's somebody else, I would say Charlie Chaplin's A Night in the Show.
- Yeah, even Charlie Chaplin who, you know, lovable tramp, you know, encountering modern technology and and having sorts of.
- All right, I really like that German, Charlie Chaplin, who invented the high five.
- I come from, you know, Charlie Chaplin, Louis CK, Bob Dylan, you know, Lenny Bruce.
- Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, who produced all of Laurel and Hearty.
Examples
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I had expected Darkness at Noon, but instead encountered Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator.
Academic text (1993) -
When Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" opened at the Loew's Delancey on the Lower East Side.
Fiction book (2001) -
Imagine Charlie Chaplin watching Charlie Chaplin act in person.
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Charlie Chaplin in City Lights
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Chaplin took eight months to make a movie.
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In the US in 1986, she received the Charlie Chaplin Award for best comedy.
Fiction book (1997) -
Consequently, artists like Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton never win Academy Awards.
Blog text (17) -
The screen actor whom Benjamin extols as a preeminent performer of self-alienation is, not surprisingly, Charlie Chaplin.
Academic text (2004) -
Sir Chaplin is renowned for his portrayal of the Tramp in silent films.
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Many consider Chaplin one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
Synonyms
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An English actor and comedian who played a sad little man in films, wearing baggy pants and a bowler hat
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chaplin comes from an old word chaplain, which is related to chapel and once meant a person who worked in a small church or helped a priest, a 'chapel servant'. So the surname originally described someone's job, and that is the source of the famous actor Chaplin.