thriller
/ˈθrɪlə
/noun
1A novel, play, or film with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage: a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong spy thrillers...
- Spy stories, thrillers and crime novels can often be far more realistic about how politics works.
- I read village mysteries and hard-boiled American private eye novels, spy thrillers and police procedurals.
- Clever thrillers that flirt with film noir are always welcome, but this is too smart for its own good.
1.1A very exciting contest or experience: a seven-goal thriller...
- Villa's climb up the table continued in this five goal thriller in Mullarney.
- Chorley and Rossendale United go head to head tomorrow in a game that has all the ingredients for a New Year derby thriller.
- In a high scoring cut and thrust thriller the St. Patrick's boys ran out six points winners.
Rhymes
- general headquarters
- general health
- general hospital
- generalia
- generalisation
- generalise
- generalism
- generalissima
- generalissimo
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- general issue
- generalist
- generality
- generalizability
- generalizable
- generalization
- generalize
- generalized anxiety disorder
- generalized coordinate
- generalizer
- general judgement
- general knowledge
- general ledger
- General Letter Office
- general linguist