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hoss opera

hoss opera noun: synonym of horse opera.

Noun

hoss opera (plural hoss operas)

  1. Synonym of horse opera.
    • Dick (Stone City Sue) Thomas just finished work in the Universal hoss opera Cimarron Gunfire. . . .1947 November 29, “Music--As Written”, in The Billboard, retrieved 21 Nov 2012
    • By far the more common was the low-budget "hoss opera" or "oater," ground out in relentless numbers by studios such as Universal and Republic, and designed basically for edification of the young, who took them in on Fridays and Saturdays along with the episode of a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel...1995, Louis Decimus Rubin, Jerry Leath Mills, A Writer's Companion
    Synonyms:
    horse opera

Synonyms of hoss opera

Forms of hoss opera

pluralhoss operas

Questions about hoss opera

What does hoss opera mean?
Hoss opera means synonym of horse opera.
What part of speech is hoss opera?
Hoss opera is a noun.
What is the plural of hoss opera?
The plural of hoss opera is hoss operas.

Words near hoss opera in the dictionary

  1. hospodariate
  2. hospodariates
  3. hospodariats
  4. hospodars
  5. hoss
  6. hoss opera
  7. hoss operas
  8. Hossain
  9. Hossains
  10. Hossein
  11. Hosseini

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