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page-turner

noun

Etymology

From page + turner.

  1. derived from tornour
  2. inherited from turnour
  3. inherited from turner
  4. compounded as page-turner — “page + turner”

Definitions

  1. A highly interesting or suspenseful written work that one is compelled to read very…

    A highly interesting or suspenseful written work that one is compelled to read very rapidly.

    • Her debut novel is such a page-turner that it's one of those books that you can't put down.
    • This is a very fat novel. The first thing you want to do with it is send it to a hospital for one of those crisis diets. Cut out 300 pages and maybe you've got a page-turner that could stand off "The Firm."

  2. A person who is responsible for turning the pages of another musician’s (especially a…

    A person who is responsible for turning the pages of another musician’s (especially a pianist or organist’s) sheet music during a performance.

    • She's a famous soloist today, but she did her time as a page-turner, just as many others have done.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see page, turner.

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No curated loop yet for page-turner. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA