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blockbuster

About 0.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
  2. noun Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
    He was watching the blockbuster film series Harry Potter.
  3. noun Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
  4. noun Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
  5. noun A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.
  6. noun One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).

Similar words

bomb explosive plastique success major blast cluster bomb potentite buster brick-buster

Often followed by

video movie movies entertainment and film films of drugs

Word family

blockbusters blockbusting

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