rescue opera
noun
An opera at the end of which the hero or heroine is rescued from imprisonment, natural catastrophe, etc., by some heroic action.
Origin
1940s. After German Rettungsoper.
- number runner
- Numbers
- numbers drop
- numbers game
- number sign
- number six
- numbers man
- numbersome
- numbers pool
- numbers racket
- numbers runner
- Number Ten
- number-theoretic
- number-theoretical
- number-theoretically
- number theorist
- number theory
- number two
- number two pencil
- number-unobtainable
- number work
- numbery
- numbfish
- numbhead
- numbheaded