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trashterpiece

trashterpiece noun: a film, book, or other work that is widely regarded as poor, but still admired by some.

Noun

trashterpiece (plural trashterpieces)

  1. (slang) A film, book, or other work that is widely regarded as poor, but still admired by some.
    • The average consumer would much rather buy a slick Hollywood production over the latest shot-on-video “trashterpiece” by someone like yours truly. As the independent moviemaker dealt with these blows, the proliferation of bit torrent downloading added further insult to injury. Suddenly everything...1998, Kevin J. Lindenmuth, How to Make Movies: Low-Budget/No-Budget Indie Experts Tell All, McFarland, →ISBN, page 168
    • Our theory: Tager saw Ed Wood's 1958 trashterpiece, "Plan 9 From Outer Space," which, yes, contains the line: "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"2001 November 26, Ted Farlow, “"What's the Frequency Kenneth" saga continues...”, in rec.music.rem (Usenet)

Examples of trashterpiece in a sentence

  • The average consumer would much rather buy a slick Hollywood production over the latest shot-on-video “trashterpiece” by someone like yours truly.1998, Kevin J. Lindenmuth, How to Make Movies: Low-Budget/No-Budget Indie Experts Tell All, McFarland, →ISBN, page 168:
  • The two didn't like each other even before Joan started horning in on Jackie's turf by writing her own steamy trashterpieces.2004 December 24, Lili2, “Feud continues with Jackie and Joan Collins”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):
  • […] fears, frustrations and fantasies crystallized into what Warhol might have tagged a mid–'60s “trashterpiece.”2006, Douglas Brode, Elvis Cinema and Popular Culture, McFarland, →ISBN, page 161:
  • Instead of debuting on TV as originally intended, this interstellar trashterpiece instead received theatrical release from Allied Artists several months following the February 1968 suicide of Adams.2012, Tom Weaver, A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers, McFarland, →ISBN, page 347:

Forms of trashterpiece

pluraltrashterpieces

Origin of trashterpiece

Blend of trash + masterpiece.

Questions about trashterpiece

What does trashterpiece mean?
Trashterpiece means a film, book, or other work that is widely regarded as poor, but still admired by some.
How do you use trashterpiece in a sentence?
The average consumer would much rather buy a slick Hollywood production over the latest shot-on-video “trashterpiece” by someone like yours truly.
What part of speech is trashterpiece?
Trashterpiece is a noun.
What is the plural of trashterpiece?
The plural of trashterpiece is trashterpieces.

Words near trashterpiece in the dictionary

  1. trashsports
  2. trashtalk
  3. trashtalked
  4. trashtalking
  5. trashtalks
  6. trashterpiece
  7. trashterpieces
  8. trashy
  9. Trask
  10. traskite
  11. Trasks

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