"smell-o-rama" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: smell-o-ramas [plural]
Etymology: From smell + -o-rama. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|smell|-o-rama}} smell + -o-rama Head templates: {{en-noun|head=smell-o-rama}} smell-o-rama (plural smell-o-ramas)
  1. (informal) A fictional name for technology that reproduces odor. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-smell-o-rama-en-noun-UVZz8hCl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -o-rama

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1995 May 15, John Simon, “Wings of Courage”, in National Review",
          "text": "Scoffers will duly scoff as they did at sound, color, and wide screen. On the other hand, Smellorama did not catch on -- most movies manage to smell without it.",
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          "ref": "2000 September, L. B. Sedlacek, Suicide Pumpkins: A Love Story, Xlibris Corporation, page 86",
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          "ref": "2002 October, Reginald E. Zelnik, Robert Cohen, The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, University of California Press, page 188",
          "text": "At the end, I had managed to transform my humiliation into a triumph of smell-o-rama weaponry. I wore my odors now as a badge, a rite of passage",
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          "text": "2003±, David R. Ambos, Letters from The Nude Lake (and other Historic Monuments), page 137, Trafford Publishing\nthe 4:44 Geary is one of the few buses also produced in Full Stereophonic Smell-O-Rama."
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          "ref": "2006 May, Richard Grayson, And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street, Lulu.com, page 136",
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        "A fictional name for technology that reproduces odor."
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        "(informal) A fictional name for technology that reproduces odor."
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          "ref": "2002 October, Reginald E. Zelnik, Robert Cohen, The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, University of California Press, page 188",
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