bonkbuster

British  

noun

1. informal a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters

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Etymology

Origin of bonkbuster

C20: from _bonk (sense 2) + ( _block ) _buster

Example Sentences

Krantz was the “queen of the bonkbuster”, those glitzy novels with their gaudy covers and snappy often one-word titles – Scruples, Lace, Rivals – that dominated commercial fiction in the late 1970s and 1980s, spinning stories of fabulous lives lived at full tilt and stuffed full of sex, secrets and shopping.

From The Guardian

As the 80s progressed, so the bonkbuster began to spread in different directions.

From The Guardian

It is for that confidence – or as a bonkbuster heroine would have it, that brio – that Krantz in particular will be missed.

From The Guardian

Victoria Beckham similarly must stay thin enough to wear her own clothes; Katie Price’s marriages must remain eventful enough to generate free publicity for an empire ranging from bonkbuster novels to jodhpurs; and glossy-haired “wellness” bloggers must live in terror of getting so much as a winter sniffle, let alone a spot.

From The Guardian

The Daily Express, which is among several papers to carry a photograph of the sisters on a night out together in London last week, says the "queen of the bonkbuster" had continued to work up to her death.

From BBC