Look up: Thriller

1. thriller
   a play hugely dependent on plot surprises and twists. Example: 'The Shirkers,' a thriller by C. M. S. McLellan, 2m1f.
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2. thriller
   [n] - a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
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3. thriller
   noun a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
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4. Thriller
   (from the article `music video`) ...It` and `Billie Jean` clips (both 1983), with their highly influential choreography and equally influential mood of paranoia, soon yielded to the ... Artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson became superstars through their exploitation of the medium. Jackson`s videos for Thriller (19...
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5. thriller
   
   • a suspenseful adventure story
   • a kind of movie; a kind of bubble game
   
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6. Thriller
   Genres of film that intentionally promote excitement, suspense and edge-of-the-seat atmospheres. The term is synonymously used to advertise adventure films and in conjunction with some `spy` features (i.e., the `spy-thriller`)
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7. thriller
   Sensational or exciting novel or film genre. US authors specializing in thriller novels include Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and Thomas Harris, and English thriller novelists include Jack Higgins, John Le Carré, and Alistair MacLean
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8. Thriller
   (genre) `Thrillers` are a genre of literature, film, video gaming and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and accessdate=2010-06-22-->--> The primary subgenre is psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller fil...
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9. Thriller
   (album) `Thriller` is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson`s critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall. Thriller explores similar genres t...
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10. Thriller
    (song) "`Thriller`" is a song recorded by American recording artist Michael Jackson and composed by Rod Temperton. It is the seventh and final single from his sixth studio album Thriller. It was released on January 23, 1984 by Epic Records. The song has appeared on multiple g...
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11. Thriller
    (U.S. TV series) `Thriller` (a.k.a. `Boris Karloff`s Thriller`) is an anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of macabre horror tales and suspense thrillers. Synops...
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12. Thriller
    (DC Comics) `Thriller` was a short-lived, 1980s comic book series first published by date=August 2007--> was originally written by Robert Loren Fleming and drawn by Trevor Von Eeden. The book was sold only through the date=August 2007--> Von Eeden left after issue #8, and the series ra...
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13. Thriller
    (Lambchop album) `Thriller` is a 1997 album by Lambchop. Three of the songs, "Hey Where`s Your Girl", "Crawl Away" and "Superstar in France" are cover versions of songs from the album Poor Fricky by East River Pipe also released on Merge Records. Th...
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14. Thriller
    (book) `Thriller` is a compilation of 30 thriller short stories edited by James Patterson. Short stories : `James Penney`s New Identity` by `Lee Child`: In Laney, California, a man named James Penney is fired after seventeen years on the job. Infuriated, James burns down his house and ...
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15. Thriller
    (viral video) `Thriller` is a viral video featuring the dancing inmates of a high-security penitentiary. In 2007, the inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security prison in Cebu, in the Cebu Province of the Philippines, imitated the zombie ...
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16. Thriller
    (roller coaster) Revered as one of date=November 2007-->, `Thriller` toured the German Fairs from 1986 to 1996, under the ownership of showman Oscar Bruch. Having been sold to the Six Flags corporation, Thriller arrived at AstroWorld in 1998 as Taz`s Texas Tornado, later Texas Tornado....
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