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Answer for the clue "Hack product ", 9 letters:
potboiler
Alternative clues for the word potboiler
- Blooper: it ruined low-quality novel
- Hack novel
- A literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
- Hack's novel
- Work of literature produced just to make money
- Fine literature it's not
- Reader mightn’t stand this heat in the kitchen, perhaps?
- Work written to sell well
- Prize chicken perhaps that's quickly produced for money
Word definitions for potboiler in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pot-boiler , 1864 in the figurative literary sense, from pot (n.1) + agent noun from boil (v.). The notion is of something one writes solely to put food on the table.
Usage examples of potboiler.
If you've managed to reach this stage of your life without having your mind rotted by science fiction potboilers, far be it from me to seduce you to the Dark Side.
With poverty a fear to be reckoned with, he constructed two potboilers and compiled another.
I doubted they could compete with the lurid potboilers I'd read on the beach.
You've got to romp home with an Oscar now and then to show the reviewers that you're interested in fine things as well as money-making potboilers.