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单词 oater
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Definition of oater in English:

oater

noun ˈəʊtəˈoʊdər
US informal
  • A western film.

    〈非正式,主美〉西部电影

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Richard Boone slaps leather in the classic fifties oater, Have Gun, Will Travel
    • Even if he won't admit Leone as a direct influence, the film reinforces the sense that samurai movies and spaghetti westerns, gangster pics and Hollywood ‘oaters’ have long since become completely intertwined.
    • Paramount's decidedly adequate edition really does this film no favors, but Last Train from Gun Hill is a solid, action-packed oater that belongs in the collection of any serious classic western fan.
    • But no matter how hard it tries, it is still steeped in a great too many of the standard formula facets of the traditional oater.
    • At the time, it was noted as being, at best, ‘one of better class oaters of the year.’
    • My Darling Clementine is one of his best - a richly developed, beautifully crafted oater that would go on to become one of the best-loved films of the postwar American cinema.
    • No one will mistake this comedic oater for Blazing Saddles, but the script does display some occasional wicked humor, and the odd comic pairing of Carroll O'Connor and James Coburn actually works.
    • While Variety wrote that the film is ‘an intensely scenic, refreshingly humanistic oater that dares to be sincere and open-hearted’.
    • Many cinephiles have long been aware of the ameliorative benefits to be had by the hungover individual who avails him/herself of one or more of Sergio Leone's Spanish-shot oaters during recovery.
    • He ornamented such unexceptional oaters as ‘The Last Outpost,’ ‘Tennessee's Partner’ and ‘Cattle Queen of Montana’.
    • Fans of classic Westerns will adore the film for being more ambitious than the standard oater programmers of the period.
    • The genre was gasping for breath, but it would be a good decade or more before the oater died a rather undignified death.
    • These queries and dozens more come bubbling to the surface during the dragged-out running time of this sloppy soap oater.
    • The popularity of the trilogy spawned better than 200 Italian-made oaters, the greatest of which is arguably Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, which starred not Clint Eastwood but Jason Robards as its grizzled anti-hero.

Origin

1950s: from oat, with allusion to horse feed; compare with the synonym horse opera.

Definition of oater in US English:

oater

nounˈoʊdərˈōdər
US informal
  • A western movie or television show.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While Variety wrote that the film is ‘an intensely scenic, refreshingly humanistic oater that dares to be sincere and open-hearted’.
    • Even if he won't admit Leone as a direct influence, the film reinforces the sense that samurai movies and spaghetti westerns, gangster pics and Hollywood ‘oaters’ have long since become completely intertwined.
    • The popularity of the trilogy spawned better than 200 Italian-made oaters, the greatest of which is arguably Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, which starred not Clint Eastwood but Jason Robards as its grizzled anti-hero.
    • Fans of classic Westerns will adore the film for being more ambitious than the standard oater programmers of the period.
    • He ornamented such unexceptional oaters as ‘The Last Outpost,’ ‘Tennessee's Partner’ and ‘Cattle Queen of Montana’.
    • The genre was gasping for breath, but it would be a good decade or more before the oater died a rather undignified death.
    • My Darling Clementine is one of his best - a richly developed, beautifully crafted oater that would go on to become one of the best-loved films of the postwar American cinema.
    • No one will mistake this comedic oater for Blazing Saddles, but the script does display some occasional wicked humor, and the odd comic pairing of Carroll O'Connor and James Coburn actually works.
    • These queries and dozens more come bubbling to the surface during the dragged-out running time of this sloppy soap oater.
    • Many cinephiles have long been aware of the ameliorative benefits to be had by the hungover individual who avails him/herself of one or more of Sergio Leone's Spanish-shot oaters during recovery.
    • Paramount's decidedly adequate edition really does this film no favors, but Last Train from Gun Hill is a solid, action-packed oater that belongs in the collection of any serious classic western fan.
    • Richard Boone slaps leather in the classic fifties oater, Have Gun, Will Travel
    • At the time, it was noted as being, at best, ‘one of better class oaters of the year.’
    • But no matter how hard it tries, it is still steeped in a great too many of the standard formula facets of the traditional oater.

Origin

1950s: from oat, with allusion to horse feed; compare with the synonym horse opera.

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