Crossword clues for potboiler
potboiler
- Fine literature it's not
- A literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
- Work written to sell well
- Reader mightn’t stand this heat in the kitchen, perhaps?
- Prize chicken perhaps that's quickly produced for money
- Poor novel likely to be steamy
- Blooper: it ruined low-quality novel
- Hardly fine literature
- Hack's output
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Potboiler \Pot"boil`er\, n. A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of pot boiler English)
WordNet
n. a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
Wikipedia
A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses—thus the imagery of "boil the pot", which means "to provide one's livelihood". Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks. Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp fiction, and potboiler films may be called "popcorn movies."
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.