Nightmare on Elm Street, A
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishNightmare on Elm Street, AA Nightmare on Elm StreetˌNightmare on ˈElm Street, A (1984) a US horror film (=a film that is intended to make you feel frightened) about a frightening character called Freddy Krueger who has knives instead of fingernails, and who appears in people's dreams and tries to kill them