Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schlockfest

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: schlock-fest
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something cheesy or of poor quality, especially a film.

Informal

Example Sentences

"In one of Hollywood's all-time great big-budget schlockfests, Smith saves Earth from alien invasion with swagger and style"
"Strangely, she followed this with the no-budget horror schlockfest Garden of the Dead (1972), playing an overwrought trailer trash waitress menaced by zombies on a prison farm where her boyfriend is incarcerated."
"[…] and Roger Engel (acting under the name “Zander Vorkov,” holding the 1970 Famous Monsters Fearbook, and dressed as Dracula) during the making of the 1971 schlockfest Dracula vs. Frankenstein (courtesy Douglas M. Whitenack)."

Etymology

From schlock + -fest.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: schlock

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

schlockfests (plural)

Questions

What does schlockfest mean?: Something cheesy or of poor quality, especially a film.
Where does schlockfest come from?: From schlock + -fest.

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