grindhouse

[电影]刑房

词形变化

grindhouses 复数 grindhouses

别名

grind house

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films

    美国 媒体

词源

From grind + house. * Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists. * Perhaps from bump and grind (dubious). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s.

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