potboiler

• A potboiler is, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, "a work of literature or art executed for the purpose of 'boiling the pot,' i.e., of gaining a livelihood." —  The Word Detective
• I thought he was still developing; and I hazarded the unhappy guess that 'The Importance of Being Earnest' was in idea a young work written or projected long before under the influence of Gilbert and furbished up for Alexander as a potboiler. —  Oscar Wilde, Volume 2
• This week's supernatural potboiler is David S. Goyer's The Unborn (Rogue / Universal), from the low budget horror specialists at Platinum Dunes (2003's Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hitcher remake and The Invisible both in 2007). —  /Film
• From the Urals to the Atlantic, Scott's potboiler - written to pull its author out of bankruptcy - was the first commercial bestseller
• One of the characters featured in Brown's fictional potboiler is an albino Opus Dei ... —  The Register's Daily Blog

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