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show

noun

A1CEFR level
5/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

The blood-stained mucus plug passed from the cervix as labour approaches.

She rang to say she'd had a show but was not yet having regular contractions.

Similar: bloody show

Topic: Maternity in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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