porno
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8.0
- noun
- /ˈpɔrnoʊ/
- Offensive
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porno
- I found a stash of old porno magazines in the attic that belonged to my uncle.
- porno movie
- porno flick
- porno film
Did your dad film porno films because he was hard up?
- Did your dad film porno films because he was hard up?
- So obviously going to do porno in space.
- I I stole a porno mag from what fucking year was this?
- You could say I was watching a gay porno last night and I thought that it was you.
- Yeah, I was watching a porno.
- Avid churchgoer, business degree, smart dresser, never sold a porno in his life.
- It's like we've been watching a porno for two years and they're still ordering the pizza.
Examples
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Oh, do you remember the first porno you watched?
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We gonna sell this to porno-shops and they'll pay top dollar for this.
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Did your dad film porno films because he was hard up?
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You could say I was watching a gay porno last night and I thought that it was you.
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And the name of the porno was Dick for Two, as you can see here.
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You can only read so many books about porno or gangsterism and all the rest of it.
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I keep a couple of my dad's porno books hidden in my desk for emergency reference.
Fiction book (2000) -
What he'd come up with was a film about the makers of gay porno films.
Fiction book (1994) -
But you were having anonymous sex in porno theaters in 1984 and 1985?
Fiction book (1993) -
What did I expect to find: sex toys, a gun, a stash of porno magazines?
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
341
5.2
Photos, films, or writing that show sex to make people want sex
138
7.2
Images and films that show sex and naked people to make people want sex
17
8.0
Books, photos or films that show people having sex to make people feel sexual desire
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8.8
Words, pictures, or stories about sex that people find rude
Antonyms
How Explicit
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Porno is short for pornography, which comes from the Greek pornē meaning 'prostitute' and graphein meaning 'to write'. It first meant 'writing about prostitutes' and later came to mean books, pictures, or films made to 'arouse sexual desire', which is why porno now names sexual material.