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bodice rippers

n. (bodice ripper English)

Usage examples of "bodice rippers".

She added constantly to that cache of reactive-cassettes of what had once been called truconfessions or bodice rippers.

If I could do that, I wouldn't be hacking out bodice rippers, I'd be making a fortune as a Hollywood shrink.

They might as well have been bodice rippers for all the serious intent that Dale had brought to the writing the past few years.

Not simply lips brushing, or doing all the things graphically described in romantic novels or those historical things known in the trade as 'bodice rippers'.