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grind house

/grahynd-hous/US // ˈgraɪndˌhaʊs //

磨坊,磨房,磨刀房,磨刀堂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : Also grind house . a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
    • : a movie theater with inexpensive admission pricing that shows low-budget films one after another, throughout the day and all or most of the night.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : of or relating to the low-budget films shown in these theaters, as exploitation films or B-movies: It’s an old grindhouse flick with cannibals hunting teens through an abandoned warehouse.His art films have a cheap grindhouse aesthetic.

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Examples

  • This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.

  • Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

  • He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.

  • Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.

  • While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.

  • It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.

  • A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

  • It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.