单词 | grind house |
释义 | grind housen. slang (originally U.S.). Now chiefly historical. A cinema showing a variety of films in continuous succession, usually with low admission fees and frequently concentrating on material regarded as of poor quality or little merit. Also: a burlesque theatre; a strip club. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre little theatre1569 private house1604 private playhouse1609 amphitheatre1611 private theatre1633 droll-house1705 summer theatre1761 show shop1772 national theatre1816 minor1821 legitimate1826 patent house1827 patent theatre1836 showboat1839 music theatre1849 penny-gaff1856 saloon theatre1864 leg shop1871 people's theatre1873 nickelodeon1888 repertory theatre1891 studio theatre1891 legit1897 blood-tub1906 rep1906 small-timer1910 grind house1923 theatrette1927 indie1928 vaude1933 straw hat1935 theatre-in-the-round1948 straw-hatter1949 bughouse1952 theatre-restaurant1958 dinner theatre1959 theatre club1961 black box1971 pub theatre1971 performance space1972 1923 Variety 6 Dec. 19/5 The pictures can go from a run in a legitimate house or a picture house that has a definitely established scale of $1.50 or $2 top, to a grind house and break records. 1928 Washington Post 1 Apr. iii. 1/1 Many people thought Keith's Theater would align itself with the so-called ‘grind’ houses running twelve hours a day continuously. 1939 L. Gody N.Y. City Guide 175 On Forty-second Street west of Broadway..famous theaters have been converted into movie ‘grind’ houses devoted to continuous double feature programs or burlesque shows. 1966 Playboy Dec. 244/1 By early 1958 all New York was a Bardot festival; her pictures, duly dubbed and scrubbed, were playing not only in the art houses but in exploitation grind houses and in respectable neighborhood theaters as well. 1993 Rolling Stone 10 June 78/1 Nick hangs with the street kids, especially Molly.., a child prostitute destined for the grind house where her mother strips for droolers. 2000 Guardian 12 May (Friday Review section) 23/6 I remember solitary teenage treks to a rat-infested ghetto grindhouse to catch some rotten dubbed martial arts flick. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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