Usually means: Highly successful, big-budget movie.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. blockbuster: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blockbuster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blockbuster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blockbuster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blockbuster: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blockbuster, blockbuster: Wordnik
  7. blockbuster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blockbuster: Wiktionary
  9. blockbuster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blockbuster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blockbuster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blockbuster: Dictionary.com
  13. blockbuster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Blockbuster (DC Comics), Blockbuster (Marauder), Blockbuster (album), Blockbuster (disambiguation), Blockbuster (entertainment), Blockbuster (film), Blockbuster (movie rental store), Blockbuster (podcast), Blockbuster (video store), Blockbuster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. blockbuster: Rhymezone
  16. blockbuster: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. blockbuster: Free Dictionary
  18. blockbuster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Blockbuster: The Word Detective
  20. blockbuster: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. Blockbuster: World Wide Words

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. blockbuster: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Blockbuster (disambiguation), blockbuster: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Blockbuster (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. blockbuster, blockbuster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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noun:  A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
noun:  (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
noun:  (informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
noun:  (slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
noun:  A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.
noun:  (US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).

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