bodice ripping

English

Noun

bodice ripping (usually uncountable, plural bodice rippings)

1. Alternative form of bodice-ripping
   • 1993, Judy L. Larson, Cynthia Payne, Graphic arts & the South, page 168:

     Tracks of the Armies portrayed more than suggestive bodice ripping: Volck's subject here was the aftermath of a rape (fig. 8).

   • 2011, Chloe Neill, Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel:

     Even a vampire enjoys a little bodice ripping now and again.

   • 2013, Laura Frost, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, page 93:

     After much bosom heaving and bodice ripping, Diana becomes conscious of her love for the “lawless savage,” and she decides to stay with him in their love oasis.