blockbuster
pronunciation
How to pronounce blockbuster in British English:
UK [ˈblɒkbʌstə(r)]
How to pronounce blockbuster in American English:
US [ˈblɑkbʌstə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block)
- an unsually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)
Word Origin
- blockbuster (n.)
- also block-buster, big bomb (4,000 pounds or larger, according to some sources), 1942, from block (n.) in the "built-up city square" sense. Entertainment sense is attested from 1957. U.S. sense of "real estate broker who sells a house to a black family on an all-white neighborhood," thus sparking an exodus, is from 1955.
Example
- 1. It had all the drama of a hollywood blockbuster .
- 2. This is pravda 's answer to the forthcoming blockbuster captain america .
- 3. Give your high cinematic standards a rest for the evening and see the blockbuster , already .
- 4. A play about trench warfare starring a puppet horse hardly screams " blockbuster " .
- 5. Assuming that tintin does end up the subject of a hollywood blockbuster , many around the world will soon think he is american .