Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the rating X.
- adjective Vulgar, obscene, or explicit in the treatment of sex.
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- adjective
Pornographic or indecent. - adjective Denoting a film given an X classification.
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Examples
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They are also more likely to report having seen an X-rated movie recently.48
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Science Weekly podcast: The birds and the bees X-rated version
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Of course dogs' simplified triage system -- if you can't eat it or mate with it, pee on it -- has provoked many X-rated jokes.
Martha Rosenberg: Do You Sleep With Your Dog? Do You Admit it? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Of course dogs' simplified triage system -- if you can't eat it or mate with it, pee on it -- has provoked many X-rated jokes.
Martha Rosenberg: Do You Sleep With Your Dog? Do You Admit it? Martha Rosenberg 2011
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X-rated Bang: Audiences are almost treated to a different kind of Bang when filming a Twister scene takes a less-than-PG turn.
Tribal Chants, Dirty Twister and More Secrets From the Set of The Big Bang Theory 2011
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So his study examined the habits of 20 university students who consumed X-rated material — that would be all of them — and the impact on their sexual identity and how it shaped their relationships with women.
ProWomanProLife » Oh please, we couldn’t find a five-year-old who hadn’t been exposed 2009
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Yet Midnight Cowboy became the only X-rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
Favorite Film Friday: Midnight Cowboy « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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Science Weekly podcast: The birds and the bees X-rated version
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Yet Midnight Cowboy became the only X-rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Favorite Film Friday: Midnight Cowboy » Print 2010
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Police who pulled over a motorist on Highway 401 near Port Hope on the weekend say he was watching an X-rated movie while driving 40 km/h over the limit
Driving While Under the Influence of Texting : Law is Cool 2009
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