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noun - a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)
POTBOILERS - A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay ...
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| Maybe cooks books |
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| Oct 20 2005 The Times - Cryptic |
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| Plural form of potboiler. |
| a book, film, or other creative work produced solely to make the originator a living by catering to popular taste. |
| A book, film, or other creative work produced solely to make the originator a living by catering to popular taste. |
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| A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expensesthus the imagery of "boil the pot", which means "to provide one's livelihood". Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks. Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp fiction, and potboiler films may be called "popcorn movies."* |