a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
mod. [of pornography] less revealing or realistic than real life; not showing genitals. : They are showing a lot of soft-core stuff on cable and most of the soap operas.
mod. less intense or extreme than hard-core.She had a soft-core approach to portraying suffering. :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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