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Pulp fiction

Best movie ever made.

Takes second third and fifth best movies ever, fourth is the god father. If you think this movie cusses to much or has to much blood you are either a pussy or mentally retarded, and I mean really retarded. I have watched it so many times I memorized Ezekiel 25-17.
Husband: I went out with the boys to see pulp fiction. That Samuel L. Jackson is one bad mother fucker.

Wife: Oh... I didn't really like it. It was to obscene and gory.

Husband: (sigh...) Honey I think we need a divorce.
by Im Cuban B June 1, 2009
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pulp fiction

Correctly defined, pulp fiction was a body of short fiction published on "pulp" (low grade) paper predominately by unknown writers. Plots were simplistic, characterizations two-dimensional, settings (even "realistic" ones) fantasized, but most of all, writing style was about 4th grade reading level, exaggerated, and totally avoided anything that might be considered actual theme, i.e., delving beneath the obvious or thoughtfulness). Original pulp fiction did cling to a "righting wrongs" framework, with Good prevailing over Evil; always the "happy ending." The term is still applicable today to describe that KIND of writing: with the added modern elements of extremely gory detail and pornography for the masses. The "Romance" genre is typical, with te word "Romance" defined by publishers NOT as a love story, but instead, detailed human copulation scenes, inferred as a "love" story (rather than simply the lust it actually presents).
In the early 1900s, "Phantom of the Opera" was an example of pulp fiction... the "10-penny dreadful." Louis L'Armour's westerns were another sample, soon augmented by early detective and superhero stories which developed into the comic book in the '30s and 40s. Horror stories proliferated. In early pulp, the love interest was minimized, and it was only in the late 20th century that explicit sexual scenes were included. Today, with few exceptions, the romance novels, whether historical or contemporary, the detective novels, and the feminist protagonists creating a characterization of Little Men (not in the Louisa May Alcott mode) are all examples of modern pulp. The term, "pulp fiction," has always literally defined inferior writing competence. That hasn't changed although it undeniably is also a venue for new writers struggling to get published, a few of whom do develop into well above average craftspersons.
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pulp wood

A penis thats not hard but not soft.
''I look at Lady Gaga and I get such Pulp Wood''.
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Pulp Fiction

Wow! I know this film called Pulp Fiction. Have you seen it?
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pulp wood

Derogatory term for a Black person, first appearing in the deep south during Reconstruction. Many freed slaves, seking gainful employment along the southern Atlantic coast worked in paper factories. Most were employed to carry the wood pulp in and out of the factories, thus giving the name of Pulp Woods.
person A: Somebody broke into my car and stole my CDs.
person B: Do you know who it was?
person A: Probably a Pulp Wood.
by Wallis Fuller August 24, 2006
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Pulp-journalism

Also known as "Pulp Journo". Can be abbreviated to "Pourno".

A post-modern literary genre, involving sub-standard, pseudo-journalistic articles, typically found on internet sites such as Yahoo's homepage.

The genre was created when random, non-researched and throw-away lifestyle articles, such as the example below, were posted in the same internet space as serious, often tragic, news stories. Here, the element of sensationalism normally found in pulp literature is often subdued in an attempt to feign scientific validity, though it can often be found in such instances as advising against shagging the milkam, as in the example below.

This uncanny juxtaposition of pseudo-scientific life-style articles and serious journalism led to the coining of the phrase "pulp-journalism" to indicate how these lifestyle articles were infiltrating a space normally reserved for serious writing.
A classic example of pulp-journalism would be Dan Juan's article '10 People you shouldn't ask out' which speak of not shagging the milkman, because you next lover will have to meet him every morning. Article originally posted on Yahoo's Homepage (25 October, 2010).

In one of the first recorded instances of the phrase ever used, a comment below the article, posted by "John" read:

"Wow, this article has just crystallised a new literary genre for me. I shall call it:

Pulp Journalism" (sic)
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Pulp Virginity

When you get a smoothie so good from Pulp you feel like you lost your virginity again
by Insanityqueen May 29, 2019
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