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THRILLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("thriller" is a kind of...):
adventure story; heroic tale (a story of an adventure)
Derivation:
thrill (cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input)