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- noun Alternative spelling of
horse opera .
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Examples
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I especially like it when a good sci-fi is not space horse-opera, as it were
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This mounted chase, in the best horse-opera manner, came thundering down a road past a schoolhouse just as the pupils were being let out for recess.
Rebel Raider H. Beam Piper 1934
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Professor Dramer conducted a side-show in the wake of a horse-opera, and the same sojourned at
The fiend's delight 1873
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Once Upon a Time in the West, fearing the horse-opera boom would bottom out and take his burgeoning career with it.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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For fans of the SF genre, action film buffs, and even open-minded horse-opera devotees, sufficient background is provided in the opening scenes of the movie and in the somewhat stereotypical roles of Serenity’s crew and the characters they interact with, that confusion should be minimized.
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For fans of the SF genre, action film buffs, and even open-minded horse-opera devotees, sufficient background is provided in the opening scenes of the movie and in the somewhat stereotypical roles of Serenity’s crew and the characters they interact with, that confusion should be minimized.
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