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thriller

[thril-er]

thrill·er

[thril-er]
noun
1.
a person or thing that thrills.
2.
an exciting, suspenseful play or story, especially a mystery story.

Origin:
1885–90; 1920–25 for def. 2; thrill + -er1
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Thriller is always a great word to know.
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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.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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thriller (ˈθrɪlə)
 
n
1.  a book, film, play, etc, depicting crime, mystery, or espionage in an atmosphere of excitement and suspense
2.  a person or thing that thrills

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thriller definition


A suspenseful, sensational story or film: “Ken Follett writes best-selling spy thrillers.”

Note: In Great Britain, the word thriller is sometimes used for all mystery novels: “Martha Grimes, an American, writes British-style thrillers.”
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