Flopsweat

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flop sweat -- n. Theater. nervous perspiration caused by fear of failure before an audience. From "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, A-G" by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994. This earliest citation in this reference is: 1966 Susann "Valley of the Dolls" 292: The applause had been deafening on her entrance, but after ten minutes the air was heavy with "flop sweat."

Krusty the Clown can be seen dumping a tanker of Flop Sweat into the Springfield Lake in the Simpsons Movie.

Ted Buckland, the lawyer from Scrubs, is notorious for suffering from Flop Sweat.

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