(US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.
(US) A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup.
Sonny W. Walker, another of the three black salesmen employed along with three whites by Concord Realty, 3524 Church Avenue, picked up the thread of Mr. Harris's bitter disclaimer that it took deliberate blockbusting—sometimes called pan…
“So the movie was an allegory about how Nolan feels like he has kinda ruined mainstream blockbusting filmmaking, which is a thoroughly explored theme in his work and can only come as a result of a filmmaker being thoughtful and introspective about their work.”
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(US, slang, AAVE) To hit or attack (someone); to insult (someone); to snitch on (someone).
(slang, transitive) To enter or join (something) aggressively and without an invitation.
(US, informal, transitive) To physically damage or ruin; to be ruined; to go bankrupt; to end (something).
(slang, AAVE) To shoot (someone).
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Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful.
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