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cultural barbiturate

cultural barbiturate noun: synonym of television.

Noun

cultural barbiturate

  1. (derogatory, slang, uncommon) Synonym of television.
    • Why should so much of television be a cultural barbiturate, a tranquilizer for the ills and anxieties of our age?1990, Paul Rutherford, When Television was Young, Primetime Canada, 1952-1967, page 423
    • Critics mockingly refer to television as a "cultural barbiturate" and joke about "mainlining the tube."2002, Marie Winn, The Plug-In Drug - Television, Computers, and Family Life, page 36
    Synonyms:
    television

Synonyms of cultural barbiturate

Questions about cultural barbiturate

What does cultural barbiturate mean?
Cultural barbiturate means synonym of television.
What part of speech is cultural barbiturate?
Cultural barbiturate is a noun.

Words near cultural barbiturate in the dictionary

  1. cultural appropriations
  2. cultural appropriator
  3. cultural appropriators
  4. cultural arbitraries
  5. cultural arbitrary
  6. cultural barbiturate
  7. cultural Bolshevik
  8. cultural Bolsheviks
  9. cultural Bolshevism
  10. cultural capital
  11. cultural center

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