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adjective

• very good, excellent; "cool". Origin: "horrorshow" is the phonetic spelling of a Russian word meaning "excellent." Entered Western pop culture with the 1960's book A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and the movie adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick.

  I thought the movie was horrorshow.

  • See more words with the same meaning: good, okay, cool, awesome, fun.

  Last edited on Jan 19 2011. Submitted by Will Carpenter from Tallulah, LA, USA on Jul 11 1997.

noun

• an event, process, etc. in which many things go wrong.

  Development of the new model was a complete horrorshow.

  • See more words with the same meaning: a mess.

  Last edited on Sep 08 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 08 2012.