variants
or less commonly porno
1
informal
: pornography
watching porn
—often used before another nouna porn star
the porn industry
a porno theater
2
porno plural pornos, informal
: a pornographic movie
… the ex-silent starlet whose voice, unfit for sound-film consumption, relegated her to pornos …—
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Given its increasing sophistication and availability, anyone with a picture of your face now can basically turn it into a porno.
—WIRED, 23 June 2023
Smog choked the city, the Hollywood sign was crumbling, and the old movie palaces had become porno theatres.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
The Story of My Death about Casanova, the self-explanatory The Death of Louis XIV and aristos-dogging-in-corsets porno Liberté.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
The feminist magazines at the time, and the porno magazines at the time.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
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WIRED, 23 June 2023
Smog choked the city, the Hollywood sign was crumbling, and the old movie palaces had become porno theatres.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
The Story of My Death about Casanova, the self-explanatory The Death of Louis XIV and aristos-dogging-in-corsets porno Liberté.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
The feminist magazines at the time, and the porno magazines at the time.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
See All Example Sentences for porn
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“Porn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porn. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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