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noun
A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From grind + house. * Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists. * Perhaps from bump and grind (dubious). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s.
