preem

English

Noun

preem (plural preems)

  1. (colloquial) The premiere of a film.
    • 2009 July 29, Peter Howell, “TIFF lands high-profile premieres”, in Toronto Star‎:
      TIFF also announced four other world premieres, plus the North American preems of four more films, including Michael Moore's hotly anticipated Capitalism: A Love Story, the guerrilla director's scathing documentary on the global economic meltdown.
  2. (colloquial) A prime minister.

Verb

preem (third-person singular simple present preems, present participle preeming, simple past and past participle preemed)

  1. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To premiere.
    • 1948, Billboard, volume 60, number 2, page 38:
      All but the Radio City Music Hall preemed new shows.
    • 1952, The Spice of Variety, page 139:
      The new Riddell Soup program "WHAT NEXT?" preemed from Hollywood last night.

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