romcom

American  

[rom-kom] / ˈrɒmˌkɒm /

Or rom-com

noun

Informal.

1. a romantic comedy.

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romcom British  

/ ˈrɒmˌkɒm /

noun

1. informal a film or television comedy based around the romantic relationships of the characters

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Etymology

Origin of romcom

By shortening

Example Sentences

His directorial method was to make the words work rather than to dazzle the audience with images; putting story first meant he was comfortable in any genre, from fantasy to romcom to horror to courtroom drama.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Shakespeare in Love” kidnapped its subject to force him into a flimsy and meretricious romcom; “Hamnet” reduces the concept of tragedy to actors being extremely sad.

From The Wall Street Journal

Though the film spices up matters by throwing in a somewhat forced subplot about an alleged kidnapping, it avoids romcom groaners by not having Phillip simply fall in love with one of the women he meets on the job.

From The Wall Street Journal

Param Sundari, a romcom starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor, is a love story between a woman from the southern state of Kerala and a man from Delhi in northern India.

From BBC

It’s as if the movie were trapped in a limbo between the slick universality of a Netflix romcom and a bone-deep micro-indie with all the smarts and feels.

From Los Angeles Times