Definitions
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- n. Alternative spelling of bodice ripper.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ms. Bly discovered romance novels during high school, when they still earned the term "bodice-ripper," she said.
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Sanford, and take your bodice-ripper rhetoric with you.
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Backstage Prince and Black Bird – same mangaka, very different – one is a sweet romance in the kabuki world; the other is a bodice-ripper in the grand old tradition of the term.
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“And what's this?” he asked as he ripped my bodice-ripper from Vincent's hands.
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I was so tired of reading standard bodice-ripper manly-men in the place of my Time Lord.
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The teenage Serb looks exactly as he would when he played for Aston Villa, glowering out of the team photo like the sort of bodice-ripper anti-hero whose brutish vulnerability would repel and yet strangely attract governesses and the poetically inclined daughters of the local gentry which is more or less what he did with Villa fans too, come to think of it.
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It's the familiar arc of many a bodice-ripper, in which the plucky, self-assured, stylish heroine faces the dangers of the wild.
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I picked up a copy of the Grass Is Singing which had a cover illustration that made it look like a lusty bodice-ripper ....
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However, I've not picked up certain books because the cover was so repulsive (too bodice-ripper, misleading art, etc.).
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"I'm obsessed with who's not invited; for Princess Di's wedding she didn't invite Barbara Cartland, who she's related to," he went on, referring to the grand dame and writer of bodice-ripper novels.
johnmperry commented on the word bodice-ripper
A sexually explicit romantic novel, usually in a historical setting, especially one involving the seduction of the heroine.
July 24, 2008