pulp
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
pulp (uncountable)
- A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
- A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
- 1983, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Defective Detective in the Pulps (page 2)
- The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.
- 1983, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray Broadus Browne, The Defective Detective in the Pulps (page 2)
- French: pulpe
- German: Fruchtfleisch, Fleisch
- Italian: polpa
- Portuguese: polpa, carne
- Russian: мя́коть
- Spanish: pulpa
- French: (presse) à sensation
pulp (pulps, present participle pulping; past and past participle pulped)
- (ambitransitive) To make or be made into pulp.
- (transitive, slang) To beat to a pulp.
- (transitive) To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from.
pulp
- (fiction) Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.
- The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.
- Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp" than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).
- pulpish, pulpy
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