English Explanatory Dictionary

acid Western

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A subversive and often surrealist western subgenre associated with 1960s counterculture.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of acid Western

Word forms

acid Western acid Westerns

Etymology

Coined by American film critic Pauline Kael in a review of El Topo (1970).

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