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Z-movies

Z-movies is the plural of Z-movie.

Meaning of Z-movie

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

Questions about Z-movies

What is Z-movies the plural of?
Z-movies is the plural of Z-movie.

Words near Z-movies in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Z-movies (page history and authors); Z-movie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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