1. Usually an enormous striped tent sitting in the middle of nowhere that showcases clowns and other freakshow acts on a stage full of lions and other animals.
2. Murder Inc
"You's not them G's, you's a circus." - Obie Trice
by B-Drac September 29, 2003
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An event designed to horrify the young with grotesquely painted clowns, grunting animals, and cheap popcorn that stains teeth orange. Known worldwide to be an advanced technique of torture for those who are afraid of clowns.
"We will take you to the damn circus if you continue to act out, Jimmy."
"Sally went to the circus and was never the same again."
"Getting raped isn't as bad as getting raped by a Clown."
"Sammy and Jimmy went to the circus and were mauled by an elephant."
by Thomas W November 29, 2007
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1. A big place where kids like to go because people stick needles threw their body...and they live!

2. The place where runaways go.

3. The tent with stripes where clowns work.
1. "Hey mommy! I wanna go to the circus and see the guy stick needles threw his brain again!"

"Honey, we just saw it five minutes ago..."

"I WANNA SEE THE CLOWN, MOMMY!"

2. John ranaway to the circus at the age of 12. He hated his life and his parents. He started working there as a clown, but he died when one of the radioactive burning logs caught fire to his hair.

3. This is the tent where the clowns live. They have awesome huge red noses and puffy hair, kinda like Ben Wallace. They can make you dog balloons. Go Clowns!
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It's a phrase used to answer a stupid question or to counter a stupid comment. It is derived from a statment made by Crash Holley (WWE superstar). He was defending his hard core title in a falls count any where match. He was at a circus when a clown approached and said to him, "I've seen on TV. You've defended your title on the street, in an alley and at a circus." Crash replied "a circus?". Just then the clown attacked him and tried to pin him. So his reaction to the puzzling statment was "a circus?" It should be said in a loud, high picthed, questioning manner.
1. Dude I think that Kim chick is hot. Reply: A circus?

2. A man is standing in front of a large clock when another man approaches and asks, "Do you know what time it is?" The man replies "a circus?"

3. I think that George W Bush is the best president this country has ever had. A circus?
by Tuskarater September 29, 2006
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A place where children watch lions and tigers and bears. Herion addicts become "clowns", the floors and seats are sticky as hell and the popcorn and peanuts taste like shit.
I paid $10 to bring the kids to the circus...I'll pay $20 to get out of ever going again.
by BETTY CROCKER June 26, 2006
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Intense. Get it? Like In-tents, but it's really intense. It is a synonym for intense as a circus is in tents. So, it could be intense. It's a pun, play on words or a word game. See Camping
Dude, that roller-coaster was a circus. It was gnarly.
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A collective noun, referring to a large group of midgets
There was a circus of midgets at the park today.

The Juarez family children are a circus of midgets.

The circus of midgets are angry that we do not refer to them as "little people"
by o0st0ned0o June 24, 2010
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