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carsploitation

carsploitation noun: a genre of exploitation films focused on cars, typified by scenes of racing and crashing.

Noun

carsploitation (uncountable)

  1. A genre of exploitation films focused on cars, typified by scenes of racing and crashing.
    • Death Race is a rehash of the 1975 carsploitation flick Death Race 2000 that predicted a new millennium in which David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone mow down old people for points.2008 August 27, Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff, “Total Drag (Race)”, in Santa Fe Reporter
    • Cage redefines "up for anything" in this goofy carsploitation movie as a vengeful grandpa on the trail of devil-worshippers who have slaughtered his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter for sacrificial purposes.2011 June 2, Randall King, chapter DVD, in Winnipeg Free Press

Origin of carsploitation

From car + -sploitation.

Questions about carsploitation

What does carsploitation mean?
Carsploitation means a genre of exploitation films focused on cars, typified by scenes of racing and crashing.
What part of speech is carsploitation?
Carsploitation is a noun.

Words near carsploitation in the dictionary

  1. Carsonism
  2. Carsonist
  3. Carsonists
  4. carspiel
  5. carspiels
  6. carsploitation
  7. carspreading
  8. Carss
  9. Carss Park
  10. Carstairs
  11. Carstairs Junction

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