A particular cinematic genre, characteristic of but not limited to the Lifetime Network, a/k/a "Television for Women who Conform to our Distorted Stereotype of our Target Demographic".
An extremely ominous phrase, "Lifetime Original Movie" heralds the advent of extreme tear-jerky melodrama, much gratuitous violence against (upper-middle-class white) women, and an unsubtle implication that men exist only to harm and exploit women.
The phrase can also refer to real-life versions of similar over-the-top pseudofeminist melodrama.
An ultra-cheesy movie that is shown on the Hallmark Channel; They usually are about Christmas and almost always have bad acting, a forgetable plot, scenes that are meant to make the viewer cry and they always have a happy ending.
You know it's Christmas time when the Hallmark Channel starts broadcasting a Hallmark Channel Original Movie that is related to Christmas.
a cheesy, low budget, made-for-TV film created by and for The Disney Channel that is intended for people ages 12+ but isn't viewed by the intended audience because they're aware of how lame those movies are. The films are instead viewed by brainwashed 7 year olds.
The Disney Channel Original Movie entitled "Camp Rock" is possibly the worst film ever produced by man
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.