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biopic

[ bahy-oh-pik ]

noun

  1. a biographical movie or TV show.


biopic

/ ˈbaɪəʊˌpɪk /

noun

  1. informal.
    a film based on the life of a famous person, esp one giving a popular treatment


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Word History and Origins

Origin of biopic1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of biopic1

C20: from bio ( graphical ) + pic ( ture )

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Example Sentences

Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.

Aaron Sorkin is frustrated that his Steve Jobs biopic fell apart.

We live in a world where a J. Edgar Hoover biopic got made before a Martin Luther King Jr. one.

One of the more fascinating projects I read about that never came to fruition was your Howard Hughes biopic starring Jim Carrey.

In a strange coincidence, the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything opened the same weekend as Interstellar.

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