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biopic
[ bahy-oh-pik ]
noun
- a biographical movie or TV show.
biopic
/ ˈbaɪəʊˌpɪk /
noun
- informal.a film based on the life of a famous person, esp one giving a popular treatment
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Word History and Origins
Origin of biopic1
1950–55; bio(graphy) + (motion) pic(ture)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of biopic1
C20: from bio ( graphical ) + pic ( ture )
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Example Sentences
Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.
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Aaron Sorkin is frustrated that his Steve Jobs biopic fell apart.
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We live in a world where a J. Edgar Hoover biopic got made before a Martin Luther King Jr. one.
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One of the more fascinating projects I read about that never came to fruition was your Howard Hughes biopic starring Jim Carrey.
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In a strange coincidence, the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything opened the same weekend as Interstellar.
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