"schlockfest" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: schlockfests [plural]
Etymology: schlock + -fest Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|schlock|fest}} schlock + -fest Head templates: {{en-noun}} schlockfest (plural schlockfests)
  1. (informal) Something cheesy or of poor quality, especially a film. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-schlockfest-en-noun-gQOEkmbU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -fest

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          "ref": "2012, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-five Profiles, McFarland & Company, published 2008, page 45",
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          "ref": "2012, Christopher M. O'Brien, The Forrest J Ackerman Oeuvre: A Comprehensive Catalog of the Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenplays, Film Appearances, Speeches and Other Works, with a Concise Biography, McFarland & Company (2012), page 49 (image caption)",
          "text": "[…] and Roger Engel (acting under the name “Zander Vorkov,” holding the 1970 Famous Monsters Fearbook, and dressed as Dracula) during the making of the 1971 schlockfest Dracula vs. Frankenstein (courtesy Douglas M. Whitenack)."
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