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genre-busting

genre-busting adjective: overturning the usual conventions of a genre.

Adjective

genre-busting (comparative more genre-busting, superlative most genre-busting)

  1. Overturning the usual conventions of a genre.

Forms of genre-busting

comparativemore genre-busting
superlativemost genre-busting

Questions about genre-busting

What does genre-busting mean?
Genre-busting means overturning the usual conventions of a genre.
What part of speech is genre-busting?
Genre-busting is an adjective.

Words near genre-busting in the dictionary

  1. genre film
  2. genre films
  3. genre studies
  4. genre-bender
  5. genre-bending
  6. genre-busting
  7. genre-savvy
  8. genred
  9. genrefication
  10. genrefied
  11. genrefies

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