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porno

noun

  1. film genre that depicts unsimulated sex activity as the central part of story
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːnəʊ/

adj

Etymology: Clipping of pornographic or pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.

  1. Pornographic.

    That's a porno film.

    For reasons that still baffle me, “Deep Throat” became the one porno film in New York chic to see and to seen at, even before the court case, even before Earl Wilson wrote about it.

noun

Etymology: Clipping of pornographic or pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.

  1. Pornography.

    In any case, porno is littered—porno is heaped—with the deaths of feelings.

  2. A pornographic film.

    They watched a few pornos.