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porn

 (pôrn) Slang
n.
1.
a. Pornography.
b. A pornographic film or video.
2. Lurid or sensational material. Often used in combination: disaster porn.
3. Printed material featuring enticing photography: "quirky or scholarly garden books that would be lost in the spring flood of garden porn" (Michael Pollan).
adj.
Pornographic.

porn′y adj.
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porny

(ˈpɔːnɪ)
adj, -nier or -niest
slang relating to pornography; pornographic
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