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shilling shockers

shilling shockers is the plural of shilling shocker.

Meaning of shilling shocker

Noun

shilling shocker (plural shilling shockers)

  1. (UK, historical) A cheap paperback book produced for the mass market in 19th-century Britain, often consolidating twelve to fifteen episodes of a serial novel whose chapters had previously been published separately as penny dreadful pamphlets, and typically focused on crime and violence.

Questions about shilling shockers

What is shilling shockers the plural of?
Shilling shockers is the plural of shilling shocker.

Words near shilling shockers in the dictionary

  1. shillin'
  2. shilling
  3. shilling mark
  4. shilling marks
  5. shilling shocker
  6. shilling shockers
  7. shilling sign
  8. shilling signs
  9. Shillingburg
  10. Shillingburgs
  11. shillinge

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