variants or less commonly porno
1
informal : pornography
watching porn
often used before another noun
a 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 pornosJohn Simon

Examples of porn in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Those feelings of inadequacy and frustration, for the kids out back making a porno, spell trouble. Jake Coyle, Chron, 16 Mar. 2022 Also in 1978, a porno movie brought even more unwanted attention, when Debbie Does Dallas, modeled loosely on the cheerleaders, drew a Texas-sized helping of Cowboys’ outrage. Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2022 In the new millennium, technology was porn’s undoing. Susannah Breslin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2018 Debating porn’s ills on society seems like a game of choose-your-own-study. Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 29 May 2018

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Word History

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of porn was in 1962

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Cite this Entry

“Porn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porn. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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