grind house
noun
: an often shabby movie theater having continuous showings especially of pornographic or violent films
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What the proto-feminist painter Artemisia Gentileschi was to the 17th-century Renaissance, Stephanie Rothman was to the 1970s grind house.
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Spike Carter, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
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“Grind house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grind%20house. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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