Skinemax movie
- noun
- /ˈskɪnəˌmæks ˈmuːvi/
- Offensive
:
película para adultos
- He stayed up late, flipping through channels, and ended up watching a Skinemax movie.
Examples
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She laughed about how predictable the plots in every Skinemax movie tend to be.
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Back in the 1990s, Skinemax movies were a running joke about cable television.
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I watched a Skinemax movie last night.
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Have you ever seen a Skinemax movie?
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Late at night, he often finds himself browsing for a Skinemax movie to enjoy.
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Many people joke about the cliché storylines found in Skinemax movies.
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A typical Saturday night might involve watching a Skinemax movie after the kids go to bed.
Synonyms
3
5.5
A film for adults that shows sexual scenes or explicit content
2
9.7
A movie that shows sexual acts for adults
How Explicit
- Offensive
20
9.1
- Offensive
49
7.2
- NSFW
17
8.0
- NSFW
3
5.5
- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Skinemax + movie
Opaque: the key constituent 'Skinemax' is a culture-specific, brand-derived slang term not defined here, so a B1 learner who only knows 'movie' cannot derive the meaning. Although 'skin' might hint at nudity, understanding that it denotes late-night softcore adult programming requires cultural/lexical knowledge of the Cinemax-derived term, making the expression unpredictable from its parts.
Etymology
Skinemax movie may come from mixing the word skin, meaning showing bodies, with the cable channel Cinemax, which showed late-night films. People joked that these late films were more about bodies than story, so Skinemax movie came to mean an 'adult film' or 'softcore' movie shown late at night.