Definition of Thrillers

1. Noun. (plural of thriller) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thrillers

1. thriller [n] - See also: thriller

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrillers

thriftlessness
thrifts
thriftshop
thrifty
thriftyness
thrill
thrill-seeker
thrill-seekers
thrillant
thrillcraft
thrilled
thriller
thrillerdom
thrilleresque
thrillerlike
thrillers (current term)
thrillfest
thrillfests
thrillful
thrillier
thrilling
thrillingly
thrillingness
thrills
thrillseeker
thrillseekers
thrillseeking
thrilly
thrimsa
thrimsas

Literary usage of Thrillers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Amateur Circus Life by Ernest Berkeley Balch, Ernest Berkeley Blach (1916)
"thrillers A practical way of improving a programme is to use a fake elephant. With the aid of Baby Jumbo you can make a most attractive act for the clown. ..."

2. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"Multicultural thrillers have, in this sense, a double responsibility: besides propagating a form of social awareness that originated in American colleges ..."

3. The Children's Library, a Dynamic Factor in Education by Sophia Hill Hulsizer Powell (1917)
"An author of "thrillers" was quoted as follows by the Boy Scout librarian at the American booksellers' convention, 1915 :' "The decline of Shorty Muldoon, ..."

4. Effective Expression: A Textbook on Composition and Rhetoric for the Four by Charles Elbert Rhodes (1921)
"The reason detective stories, stories of adventure, and "thrillers," have ... The bad effect of cheap melodramas and the worst kind of "thrillers," is due ..."

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