grindhouse
Meaning
Noun
- A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films
Origin
- grind + house.
- Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists.
- Perhaps from bump and grind (). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s.
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