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mockbusters

mockbusters is the plural of mockbuster.

Meaning of mockbuster

Noun

mockbuster (plural mockbusters)

  1. (informal) A relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success.
    • Whereas the Asylum had a well-defined audience as a horror-movie company, the mockbuster strategy aims at a broader and shallower demographic: some viewers have seen the real blockbuster and want more of the same thing, no matter how lo-fi; some are genre geeks, interested in low-budget adventure...2007 October 7, Rolf Potts, “The New B Movie”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    knockbuster

Questions about mockbusters

What is mockbusters the plural of?
Mockbusters is the plural of mockbuster.

Words near mockbusters in the dictionary

  1. mockbird
  2. mockbirds
  3. mockbust
  4. mockbusted
  5. mockbuster
  6. mockbusters
  7. mockbusting
  8. mockbusts
  9. mocked
  10. mocked out
  11. mocked up

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