Definitions for blockbusters

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blockbusters block·bust·er

Spelling: [blok-buhs-ter]

IPA: /ˈblɒkˌbʌs tər/

Blockbusters is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 1140 anagrams from letters in blockbusters (bbceklorsstu).

Definitions for blockbusters

noun

1. an aerial bomb containing high explosives and weighing from four to eight tons, used as a large-scale demolition bomb.
2. a motion picture, novel, etc., especially one lavishly produced, that has or is expected to have wide popular appeal or financial success.
3. something or someone that is forcefully or overwhelmingly impressive, effective, or influential:
4. a real-estate speculator who practices blockbusting.
5. an aerial bomb containing high explosives and weighing from four to eight tons, used as a large-scale demolition bomb.
6. a motion picture, novel, etc., especially one lavishly produced, that has or is expected to have wide popular appeal or financial success.
7. something or someone that is forcefully or overwhelmingly impressive, effective, or influential:
8. a real-estate speculator who practices blockbusting.

Origin of blockbusters

First recorded in 1940-45; block + buster

Examples for blockbusters

Basically, the biggest comedy blockbuster of the summer ridiculed the very notion of the summer blockbuster itself.

Our own blockbuster should get there before they fire again.

We used to think that the B-17 was a huge plane, and the blockbuster it carried a huge load.

As the creator of Roger Rabbit, he eventually partnered with Walt Disney Pictures for a blockbuster animation film.

Cast Angelina Jolie in that role with Brad Pitt as the cave hubbie, and maybe we have a blockbuster in the making.

Not only, in the rarest of cases, where there a female lead in a blockbuster action movie, but the damsel in distress was a dude.

It also, as it happens, is a great movie, with a 79 Metacritic score that tops every other blockbuster released this summer.

Once, after the midnight premiere of a summer blockbuster, I got trapped on the top floor of a giant multiplex.

And since Hollywood is all about blockbuster family entertainments now, about half of our nude content comes from television.

It used to be that if you made $100 million, it was a blockbuster hit.

Cast Angelina Jolie in that role with Brad Pitt as the cave hubbie, and maybe we have a blockbuster in the making.

It used to be that if you made $100 million, it was a blockbuster hit.

Our own blockbuster should get there before they fire again.

As the creator of Roger Rabbit, he eventually partnered with Walt Disney Pictures for a blockbuster animation film.

And since Hollywood is all about blockbuster family entertainments now, about half of our nude content comes from television.

Not only, in the rarest of cases, where there a female lead in a blockbuster action movie, but the damsel in distress was a dude.

Once, after the midnight premiere of a summer blockbuster, I got trapped on the top floor of a giant multiplex.

Basically, the biggest comedy blockbuster of the summer ridiculed the very notion of the summer blockbuster itself.

We used to think that the B-17 was a huge plane, and the blockbuster it carried a huge load.

It also, as it happens, is a great movie, with a 79 Metacritic score that tops every other blockbuster released this summer.