thriller has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie

Used in print

(R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)

A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric_Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery_stories , Dashiell_Hammett 's The Maltese_Falcon .

Related terms

adventure_story thrill

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