Citations:cinemuck
English citations of cinemuck
Noun: "(informal) a sticky coating on the floor of a movie theatre caused by spilled beverages and dropped snack items"
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- 1990 — Allen Rose, "Light On Way Out But It's Flashing First", Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 1990:
- Karen Andreas of Merritt Island says kids have a name for spilled soft drinks and other sticky stuff sometimes found on movie house floors. "My husband and I overheard a couple of teen-agers at the movies," she said. "The girl stepped in something and told her boyfriend it was 'cinemuck'" […]
- 1997 — Linda Salisbury, "Movies, Mothers, and Messages", Herald Tribune, 26 February 1997:
- He's never been much of a movie-goer, objecting to both the price and the stuff you walk in ("cinemuck" as I've heard it called) to get to your seat.
- 2003 — "Where have all the Fort Wayne movie theaters gone?", Fort Wayne News Sentinel, 10 March 2003:
- It only makes me wonder if there's any market at all for people who require only a clean theater - not too much cinemuck on the floors - that's not too far from home and doesn't make you wait in the cold too long to buy a ticket.
Noun: "(informal, pejorative) cinematic material considered to be of low quality"
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- 2001 — Denise A. Raymon, "An inch too far to go see '3,000 Miles to Graceland'", Press Republican, 1 March 2001:
- Crawling on your knees to the real Graceland over shards of broken glass would be less painful than sitting through this cinemuck.
- 2001 — Chris Garcia, "Hated It", Austin American-Statesman, 6 December 2001:
- Pith and poison are twin barrels in his war against cinemuck. Star ratings are traded for explosive devices, from a solo bomb ("Almost tolerable") to the last-resort atomic mushroom cloud ("A festering wound in the (rear) of cinema").
- 2012 — "Summer Movie Guide", Rapid River Arts & Culture Magazine, June 2012, page 25:
- With The Avengers, Men In Black 3 and other big budget CGI fests already mopping up the cinemuck at the cineplexes, the summer block buster season is upon us.