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grindhouse
[ grahynd-hous ]
noun
, Slang.
- Also grind house. a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- a movie theater with inexpensive admission pricing that shows low-budget films one after another, throughout the day and all or most of the night.
adjective
, Slang.
- of or relating to the low-budget films shown in these theaters, as exploitation films or B-movies: His art films have a cheap grindhouse aesthetic.
It’s an old grindhouse flick with cannibals hunting teens through an abandoned warehouse.
His art films have a cheap grindhouse aesthetic.
grindhouse
/ ˈɡraɪndˌhaʊs /
noun
- a cinema specializing in violent or exploitative films such as martial arts movies from Japan and Hong Kong
- ( as modifier )
a grindhouse film
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grindhouse1
First recorded in 1920–25; grind ( def ) (in the combined sense “to operate an early movie projector by turning a handle or crank” and “a low-budget film that a studio grinds out”) + house ( def )
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Example Sentences
Robert Rodriguez grindhouse gore-fest, Machete Kills, slices and dices its way into theaters on Oct. 11.
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