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teensploitation

teensploitation noun: a genre of exploitation films, starring teenage actors with teen-oriented plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol or crime.

Noun

teensploitation (uncountable)

  1. A genre of exploitation films, starring teenage actors with teen-oriented plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol or crime.
    • We sat down to watch a teensploitation slasher flick.
    • With 1955's Blackboard Jungle—the first film to traffic heavily in youth rebellion and sex, the twin pillars of any teenager's existence—a brilliant, if obvious, new genre of film was born: teensploitation, movies about teenagers made for teenagers but watched by everybody.1999 February, Bill Sienkiewicz, “Forever Young”, in SPIN, SPIN Media, page 64

Origin of teensploitation

From teen + -sploitation (from exploitation film). From 1980s.

Questions about teensploitation

What does teensploitation mean?
Teensploitation means a genre of exploitation films, starring teenage actors with teen-oriented plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol or crime.
What part of speech is teensploitation?
Teensploitation is a noun.

Words near teensploitation in the dictionary

  1. teensits
  2. teensitter
  3. teensitters
  4. teensitting
  5. teenspeak
  6. teensploitation
  7. teenster
  8. teensters
  9. teenswear
  10. teensy
  11. teensy weensy

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