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grind house, n. slang (orig. U.S.). Now chiefly hist.
Brit. |ˈgrʌɪnd haʊs|, U.S. |ˈgraɪnd ˌ(h)aʊs|
[Probably ‹grind n.1 (compare sense 2 at that entry) + house n.1
J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 970/1 suggests a further connection with the relatively rare U.S. slang grinder ‘a barker who works continuously in front of a single show’, earliest attested in 1918.]
A cinema showing a variety of films in continuous succession, usually with low admission fees and freq. concentrating on material regarded as of poor quality or little merit. Also: a burlesque theatre; a strip club.
1923Variety 6 Dec. 19/5 The pictures can go from a run in a legitimate house or a picture house that has a definitely established scale of $1.50 or $2 top, to a grind house and break records. 1928Washington Post 1 Apr. iii. 1/1 Many people thought Keith's Theater would align itself with the so-called ‘grind’ houses running twelve hours a day continuously. 1939L. Gody N.Y. City Guide 175 On Forty-second Street west of Broadway..famous theaters have been converted into movie ‘grind’ houses devoted to continuous double feature programs or burlesque shows. 1966Playboy Dec. 244/1 By early 1958 all New York was a Bardot festival; her pictures, duly dubbed and scrubbed, were playing not only in the art houses but in exploitation grind houses and in respectable neighborhood theaters as well. 1993Rolling Stone 10 June 78/1 Nick hangs with the street kids, especially Molly.., a child prostitute destined for the grind house where her mother strips for droolers. 2000Guardian 12 May (Friday Rev. section) 23/6, I remember solitary teenage treks to a rat-infested ghetto grindhouse to catch some rotten dubbed martial arts flick. |