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Z-movie

Z-movie noun: a very low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.

Noun

Z-movie (plural Z-movies)

  1. A very low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.
    • The name “Quentin” clearly operates as a lucky charm if you’re an idiosyncratic film-maker, especially if you deal with sudden death, craziness and Z-movie Americana.2021 July 4, Jonathan Romney, “‘I want to make people laugh’: Quentin Dupieux, the fun auteur of French cinema”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022

Forms of Z-movie

pluralZ-movies

Origin of Z-movie

By extension from B-movie. Compare Z-list.

Questions about Z-movie

What does Z-movie mean?
Z-movie means a very low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.
What part of speech is Z-movie?
Z-movie is a noun.
What is the plural of Z-movie?
The plural of Z-movie is Z-movies.

Words near Z-movie in the dictionary

  1. z-intercepts
  2. Z-list
  3. Z-lister
  4. Z-listers
  5. Z-lists
  6. Z-movie
  7. Z-movies
  8. z-order
  9. z-orders
  10. Z-pak
  11. Z-paks

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