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Hugely successful film or book?
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blockbuster
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Blockbuster , as applied to film , theatre , and sometimes also video games , denotes a very popular or successful, usually big budget production.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block) an unsually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) [syn: megahit , smash hit ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ "Roots" became a blockbuster TV series. ▪ a blockbuster from the summer of '99 ▪ Bruce Willis's new blockbuster took $10.6 million in its first weekend. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Brown promised a blockbuster , and he delivered. ...
Usage examples of blockbuster.
He talked an incessant stream of nonsense, bad jokes, lines from Bollywood blockbusters, ancient poetry.
If one were a small farmer trying to keep alive a traditional agrarian way of life for his children, if one were a third-generation Japanese small nurseryman struggling to survive amid a parking lot full of cheap plants at Orchard Supply, if one were proud of his Punjabi roots, religion, dance and customs and wished his daughter to preserve an ancestral way of life drawn from a rich past in India, then the juggernaut of Blockbuster, Festival 10 Theaters, Pizza Hut, Costco, Borders Books, Amazon.
Sollie traded in collectible cars at Ragtops in West Palm as frequently as I switched out DVDs at Blockbuster.
During those two hours, the staff had been working on a blockbuster story telling how Harlem had gone on strike, no one was reporting for work, and while there had been no announcements, the action was obviously well-organized and clearly a massive protest by the black community against bias, discrimination, and all forms of tokenistic, non-Jewish liberalism.
Blockbuster himself should pony up a heftier chunk of the arena moneyan option no self-respecting sports tycoon likes to contemplate.
Blockbuster had helped Curly find the film, which had been released several years earlier, before Kimberly Lou Dixon signed on for the Mother Paula TV commercials.
Then, his Pump and Glow health club membership, his Blockbuster Video card.
And Kolya also has video cassettes, direct from US, with the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and Vasya still has none of these!
Nevertheless, the past few years have introduced millions of people to traditional fantasy through the cinematic blockbusters ofHarry Potter andThe Lord of the Rings .
The real estate people, the blockbusters themselves, snapped up the houses cheap.
The slums had been created by the blockbusters, and they were never really held accountable.
He shared the passion of most of the troop for watching Blockbusters, but had one annoying habit that was all his own.
He shared the passion of most of the troop for watching Blockbusters, but had one annoying habit that was all his own.
We took mugs of tea with us to the briefing room, Nosh still honking because Solid Shot had solved the conundrum on Blockbusters.
All the bombs dropped on all the cities in World War II amounted to some two million tons, two megatons, of TNT - Coventry and Rotterdam, Dresden and Tokyo, all the death that rained from the skies between 1939 and 1945: a hundred thousand blockbusters, two megatons.