An academic term for the genre of film colloquially known as chick flicks. The genre has three main sub-categories:

1. Classic fairytale - often presented in the guise of romantic comedy. Various thin plot lines, but always culminating in the girl marrying the rich, handsome guy - the 'handsome prince' architype. e.g. Bridget Jones' Diary, Notting Hill, Pretty Woman, and many, many more. This is the most common form of cinema clitera.

2. Reconcilation - with a female friend, sister, mother or daughter, with whom there as been a long-standing feud or alienation. Often ends with one of the lead protagonists dying of a 'fashionable' disease, such as leukemia or a brain tumour, shortly after the reconcilation. e.g. Beaches, Terms of Endearment.

3. Girlies together against the world - various plots but all centre around shared emotional trials and tribulations, often a mix of light weight comedy and schmaltz e.g. Steel Magnolias, Sex in the City.

Interviewer: "Mr Grant, many of your films, perhaps with the exception of 'Maurice', are often dismissed by critics as cinema clitera. What is your response to this?"
Hugh Grant: "Erm, Erm, Erm ..."

cinema clitera by Maeve Bitchy May 27, 2008

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Clitar Hero

Eumphemism for female masturbation

Susan: "What are you going to do on your day off?"
Mary: "I think I'm gonna play a little Clitar Hero and take a nap."
Susan: "Rock on, sistah!"

Clitar Hero by Aimee S. October 16, 2008

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Cliterference

When someone gets in the way of you flirting, making out, or having sex with a girl you're interested in. Essentially, the sapphic or wlw version of cock blocking.

We can't bring Ashton on our date he's Cliterference in human form

Cliterference by Sweetmothersappho May 10, 2019

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clitorference

To run interference against instances of sexual tension between two lesbians by a third party.

My friend ran clitorference so I wouldn't be hit on by lesbians at the party.

clitorference by kerriK December 18, 2010

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