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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A female character in a horror or thriller film who is the last person alive to confront the killer or monster, and often the sole survivor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by film theorist Carol J. Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992).
