POTBOILER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potboiler mean? 

• POTBOILER (noun)
  The noun POTBOILER has 1 sense:

1. a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)

  Familiarity information: POTBOILER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTBOILER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("potboiler" is a kind of...):

literary composition; literary work (imaginative or creative writing)