"schlockfest" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: schlockfests [plural]
Etymology: From 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

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2012, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-five Profiles, McFarland & Company, published 2008, →ISBN, page 45:",
          "text": "Strangely, she followed this with the no-budget horror schlockfest Garden of the Dead (1972), playing an overwrought trailer trash waitress menaced by zombies on a prison farm where her boyfriend is incarcerated.",
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          "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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