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schlockfest

schlockfest noun: something cheesy or of poor quality, especially a film.

Noun

schlockfest (plural schlockfests)

  1. (informal) Something cheesy or of poor quality, especially a film.
    • In one of Hollywood's all-time great big-budget schlockfests, Smith saves Earth from alien invasion with swagger and style2000 April, “Going Hollywood”, in Vibe, page 85
    • Strangely, she followed this with the no-budget horror schlockfest Garden of the Dead (1972), playing an overwrought trailer trash waitress menaced by zombies on a prison farm where her boyfriend is incarcerated.2012, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-five Profiles, McFarland & Company, published 2008, →ISBN, page 45

Forms of schlockfest

pluralschlockfests

Origin of schlockfest

From schlock + -fest.

Questions about schlockfest

What does schlockfest mean?
Schlockfest means something cheesy or of poor quality, especially a film.
What part of speech is schlockfest?
Schlockfest is a noun.
What is the plural of schlockfest?
The plural of schlockfest is schlockfests.

Words near schlockfest in the dictionary

  1. schlockbuster
  2. schlockbusters
  3. schlocker
  4. schlockers
  5. schlockey
  6. schlockfest
  7. schlockfests
  8. schlockier
  9. schlockiest
  10. schlockily
  11. schlockiness

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