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sharksploitation

sharksploitation noun: a genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.

Noun

sharksploitation (uncountable)

  1. A genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.
    • Hunky James Caan look-alike Andrés Garcia – the nominal hero who is apparently sponsored by Adidas – became a pin-up of these adventures, appearing in the sharksploitation movie Tintorera! (1977), Tonino Ricci's Cave of the Sharks and in The Bermuda Triangle (1978), with John Huston and Claudine...2011, Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 282
    • After their yacht runs aground in Australian waters, four of them decide to swim for land but are soon stalked by a huge great white shark. While the story stutters and starts, sharksploitation fans will lap it up.2011 January 21, David Edwards, “New Releases; DVDs”, in The Mirror, UK

Origin of sharksploitation

From shark + -sploitation.

Questions about sharksploitation

What does sharksploitation mean?
Sharksploitation means a genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.
What part of speech is sharksploitation?
Sharksploitation is a noun.

Words near sharksploitation in the dictionary

  1. sharkskin
  2. sharkskinned
  3. sharkskins
  4. sharksona
  5. sharksonas
  6. sharksploitation
  7. sharksucker
  8. sharksuckers
  9. sharktopus
  10. sharkwatching
  11. sharky

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