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teensploitation

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A genre of exploitation films, starring teenage actors with teen-oriented plots involving drugs, sex, alcohol or crime.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television

Examples

  • We sat down to watch a teensploitation slasher flick.
  • 1999, Edmond Grant, The Motion Picture Guide: 1999 Annual (The Films of 1998), CineBooks, page vii, Adrian Lyne's LOLITA was more notable for the terror it struck in controversy-shy American distributors than for its content, reducing taboo subject matter to a teensploitation film with a literary pedigree.

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History

Etymology

From teen + -sploitation (from exploitation film). From 1980s.