Usually means: Novel written quickly for profit.
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  1. potboiler: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. potboiler: Merriam-Webster
  3. potboiler: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. potboiler: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. potboiler: Collins English Dictionary
  6. potboiler: Vocabulary.com
  7. potboiler: Wordnik
  8. potboiler: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. potboiler: Wiktionary
  10. potboiler: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. potboiler: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. potboiler: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Potboiler, potboiler: Dictionary.com
  14. Potboiler: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Potboiler: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. potboiler: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. potboiler: Rhymezone
  18. Potboiler: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. potboiler: FreeDictionary.org
  20. potboiler: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Potboiler: The Word Detective
  22. potboiler: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Potboiler: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. potboiler: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. potboiler: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. potboiler: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of pot boiler [(figurative, mildly derogatory) A creative work of low quality (book, art, etc), produced merely to earn a living or for profit, as opposed to serious creative expression.]

Similar:
waterboiler, boilersuit, pot-hook, tempest in a tea-kettle, B movie, steam pipe, blow-off, lobsterpot, picturebook, jokebook, more...

Opposite:
literary, highbrow, serious, intellectual

Types:
bodice ripper, airport novel, pulp fiction, thriller, romance, detective novel, historical novel, more...

Adjectives:
mere, latest, little, shameless, odious, melodramatic, selling, western, anonymous, terrible, gothic

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Similar:
waterboiler, boilersuit, pot-hook, tempest in a tea-kettle, B movie, steam pipe, blow-off, lobsterpot, picturebook, jokebook, more...

Opposite:
literary, highbrow, serious, intellectual

Types:
bodice ripper, airport novel, pulp fiction, thriller, romance, detective novel, historical novel, more...

Adjectives:
mere, latest, little, shameless, odious, melodramatic, selling, western, anonymous, terrible, gothic



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