Dead Ear

What is Dead Ear?


1.

Dead ear is radio and television lingo which is used to describe a moment of unintended silence on air. This usually occurs when someone says or does something dumb or uncalled for, which prompts silence from the listening party, almost always because they don't know how to respond to the dumb comment. Or it could also mean awkward silence in which something was expected.

In 1987 Dan Rather gave CBS six minutes of dead ear when he walked off the set in a fit because a tennis match ran overtime, cutting off part of the news.

See dead ear, dead, ear, phil


63

Random Words:

1. Those flying beetle enemies in Halo 2. Nobody really knows what they're called, so I call them zorkas. "Crap! Zorkas are comi..
1. the subtle dance coaxing a girl into allowing you to plug the backdoor and also the act itself. "My wife let me whip out the elect..
1. Abbreviation for a drink called "your tongue my panties" - favorite drink of a qweenihini. 1 oz each of rum, coconut rum, sou..