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pre-Codes

pre-Codes is the plural of pre-Code.

Meaning of pre-Code

Noun

pre-Code (plural pre-Codes)

  1. A pre-Code movie, especially one that was subsequently banned under the Hays Code.
    • The most brutal pre-Codes take the viewer to Hell, and only sometimes back, just as the noir films did after the war a one-way ticket to oblivion, destruction, and death.2013 June 27, Andre Spicer, Helen Hanson, A Companion to Film Noir, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

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Questions about pre-Codes

What is pre-Codes the plural of?
Pre-Codes is the plural of pre-Code.

Words near pre-Codes in the dictionary

  1. pre-chorus
  2. pre-choruses
  3. pre-Christian
  4. pre-Christians
  5. pre-Code
  6. pre-Codes
  7. pre-colonial
  8. pre-Columbian
  9. pre-combat
  10. pre-combustion
  11. pre-competition

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-Codes (page history and authors); pre-Code (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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