Definition of porn
1
informal
: pornography
watching porn
—often used before another noun a porn starthe porn industrya porno theater
2
porno, plural pornos, informal
: a pornographic movie
… the ex-silent starlet whose voice, unfit for sound-film consumption, relegated her to pornos …— John Simon
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The first known use of porn was in 1962
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