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adjective

• good; well. Origin: "horrorshow" is the approximate phonetic spelling of a Russian word meaning "good." (This Russian word is more commonly transliterated as "khorosho".) Possibly entered Western pop culture with the 1962's book A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and/or the 1971 movie adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick.

  I thought the movie was horrorshow.

                                                                                                
  
  Citation from A Clockwork Orange (1971 film) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

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

  Last edited on Mar 24 2019. 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.

• a big mess.

                                                                                                                       
  
  Citation from Room for Rent (2017 film) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

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

  Last edited on Mar 05 2019. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 05 2019.