bodiceripper

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bodiceripper (plural bodicerippers)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of bodice ripper
    • 2016 February 26, Beth Wesson, “Selling Outlander to the Masses … Or Selling Out?”, in My Outlander Blog[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2018:
      They stubbornly hung on to the idea that Outlander was a Harlequinesque bodiceripper that would only appeal to middle-age bored housewives.