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Definition of horrorshow
horrorshow
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.
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| Definitions include: acronym for "God awful mess". | |
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| Definitions include: a massive disaster. | |
| Definitions include: messy, trashy, or dilapidated. | |
| Definitions include: of superior quality, excellent; "cool". | |
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| Definitions include: a mess, a really bad situation. | |
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| Definitions include: the noun senses of "crap" are mostly a subset of the uses of "shit." | |
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| Definitions include: it's all good. | |
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| Definitions include: very good. | |
| Definitions include: "cool", according to the sixth edition of "UCLA Slang". | |
| Definitions include: "shit". | |
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| Definitions include: "wicked" (very) "pissa" (cool). | |
| Definitions include: very well. | |
| Definitions include: cool, fun, hip, the best. | |
| Definitions include: "sweet" + "righteous". | |
| Definitions include: "the shit". | |
| Definitions include: "awesome", "cool", "the bomb". | |
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| Definitions include: to suffer from failure. | |
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| Definitions include: to defraud; "swindle". | |
| Definitions include: misspelling of awesome. | |
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| Definitions include: Fake. | |
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