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funhouse mirror

funhouse mirror noun: a type of distorting mirror with strong distortion effect used for amusement in funhouses and carnivals, especially in a hall of mirrors.

Noun

funhouse mirror (plural funhouse mirrors)

  1. A type of distorting mirror with strong distortion effect used for amusement in funhouses and carnivals, especially in a hall of mirrors.
    • In this chapter I want to offer a suggestion that in any other field would be stunningly obvious, boring even, but in the funhouse mirror of intellectual property appears revolutionary.2008, James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Yale University Press
    • For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection.2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic

Forms of funhouse mirror

pluralfunhouse mirrors

Questions about funhouse mirror

What does funhouse mirror mean?
Funhouse mirror means a type of distorting mirror with strong distortion effect used for amusement in funhouses and carnivals, especially in a hall of mirrors.
What part of speech is funhouse mirror?
Funhouse mirror is a noun.
What is the plural of funhouse mirror?
The plural of funhouse mirror is funhouse mirrors.

Words near funhouse mirror in the dictionary

  1. fungusproofs
  2. fungusses
  3. fungusy
  4. fungy
  5. funhouse
  6. funhouse mirror
  7. funhouse mirrors
  8. funhouses
  9. funic
  10. funicity
  11. funicle

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