"box-office bomb" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-box-office bomb.ogg [Australia] Forms: box-office bombs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} box-office bomb (plural box-office bombs)
  1. (informal) A motion picture that generates relatively low revenue at the box office, especially less than the budget for producing it. Tags: informal Synonyms: flop, turkey Translations (motion picture that generates relatively low revenue at the box office): Flop [masculine] (German), bukás (Hungarian), bukta (Hungarian), fallimento al botteghino [masculine] (Italian), 매표소 실패 (maepyoso silpae) (Korean), fracaso en taquilla [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-box-office_bomb-en-noun-iweIFy~Z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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