Definitions
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- adjective neologism Featuring
graphic depictions ofviolence , especially of anintensity orform consideredexcessive andsocially damaging .
Etymologies
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kill + -o- + graphic, after the pattern of pornographic. Coined by the National Institute on Media and the Family in 2003.
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My really big problem with this other than the fact that they're essentially putting out a list of movies that have been rated R for violence and saying "don't send your kids to these movies" is their coinage of the word "killographic".
Killography cnoocy 2003
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