bonkbuster

noun

1. informal.
   a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters

Word History and Origins

Origin of bonkbuster¹

C20: from bonk (sense 2) + ( block ) buster

Example Sentences

Krantz was the “queen of the bonkbuster”, those glitzy novels with their gaudy covers and snappy often one-word titles – Scruples, Lace, Rivals – that dominated commercial fiction in the late 1970s and 1980s, spinning stories of fabulous lives lived at full tilt and stuffed full of sex, secrets and shopping.

From The Guardian

As the 80s progressed, so the bonkbuster began to spread in different directions.

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It is for that confidence – or as a bonkbuster heroine would have it, that brio – that Krantz in particular will be missed.

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Banish traumatic memories of Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston in the 90s bonkbuster of similar title.

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EL James’s hugely successful bonkbuster Fifty Shades of Grey came out only six years ago, but its questionable gender politics have begun to niggle at some; the recent film adaptation of the third book, Fifty Shades Freed, was criticised for being out of step with current sentiment.

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