drawing card

Questions about drawing card

What does drawing card mean?

drawing card means "an entertainer who attracts large audiences". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for drawing card?

Close synonyms include draw, attraction, attractor, attracter, loss leader. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drawing card a common word?

drawing card is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.