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thriller
[ thril-er ]
noun
- a person or thing that thrills.
- an exciting, suspenseful play or story, especially a mystery story.
thriller
/ ˈθrɪlə /
noun
- a book, film, play, etc, depicting crime, mystery, or espionage in an atmosphere of excitement and suspense
- a person or thing that thrills
thriller
- A suspenseful, sensational story or film: “Ken Follett writes best-selling spy thrillers.”
Notes
Word History and Origins
Origin of thriller1
Example Sentences
If the ongoing Hollywood scandal were a teen thriller from the 90s.
Thriller author Patrick Oster was a reporter in Berlin when the wall came down 25 years ago.
What prompted you to pick the fall of the Berlin Wall as the backdrop for your thriller?
With Thriller, we took 800 songs and whittled them down to nine.
He believed American audiences were ready for a thriller set in Africa.
Nowadays almost every fictionist of account produces one good thriller at least of this sort.
It happened the very next day, beginning with a circumstance which made Tom feel indeed like a hero in a cheap thriller.
So for a number of years the parachute was little heard of, except as a “thriller” at country fairs.
Before the week ended I had written another thriller and this, too, was accepted.
If she only could write scenarios, what a thriller this would make!
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