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"penny dreadfuls" Definition

  1. an expressive term for those penny publications which depend more upon sensationalism than upon merit, artistic or literary, for success.

More About penny dreadfuls

Position in the dictionary: 2555 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: penny gaff, penny starver, penny-a-liner, pensioner, pen’orth, pepper, pepper-boxes, perch, perform, perkin
Previous words in the dictionary: pencil-fever, penang-lawyer, pegtops, peggers, peg, peery, peepers, peeler, peel, peckish

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