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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.
noun
A form of lowest-common-denominator entertainment designed to appeal to the masses and dissuade people from thinking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, informal, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Blend of titty + entertainment, in reference to the pacifying effect of watching TV, similar to that of a child sucking on its mother's breast. Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann claim in The Global Trap that it was coined by Polish-American diplomat and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski.
