porn
/pɔːn
/informal
noun [mass noun]
1Pornography: hardcore porn...
- You start to look for more graphic pornography and start using porn that disgusted you earlier.
- Note how no distinction is made between child pornography and porn that features consenting adults.
- Every now and then I'll look at some gay porn out of curiosity just to see if it gives me a rush.
1.1 [in combination or with modifier] Television programmes, magazine, books, etc. that are regarded as emphasizing the sensuous or sensational aspects of a non-sexual subject and stimulating a compulsive interest in their audience: like much of the country, I drool over gastro-porn on telly...
- There were male subjects too, but the primate porn did not get a single rise out of their apparatuses.
- Yes, it is likely that a foodie book will be by the bedside, but not as porn.
- That might be changing, despite how the movie wrings its hands about the end of the day of narrative porn.
adjective
Pornographic: a porn film...
- A beautiful wife, a sexy friend - sounds like the premise of a French porn film.
- Like many other women, the writer never found much to like about porn videos.
- I have been married for three years, and it seems that my husband has a slight problem with porn videos.
Origin
1950s: abbreviation.