porn

noun

ˈpȯrn 

variants or less commonly porno

ˈpȯr-(ˌ)nō 

1

informal : pornography

watching porn

—often used before another noun

a porn star

the porn industry

a 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

Examples of porn in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Given its increasing sophistication and availability, anyone with a picture of your face now can basically turn it into a porno. — WIRED, 23 June 2023

Smog choked the city, the Hollywood sign was crumbling, and the old movie palaces had become porno theatres. — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023

The Story of My Death about Casanova, the self-explanatory The Death of Louis XIV and aristos-dogging-in-corsets porno Liberté. — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022

The feminist magazines at the time, and the porno magazines at the time. — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022

Those feelings of inadequacy and frustration, for the kids out back making a porno, spell trouble. — Jake Coyle, Chron, 16 Mar. 2022

Also in 1978, a porno movie brought even more unwanted attention, when Debbie Does Dallas, modeled loosely on the cheerleaders, drew a Texas-sized helping of Cowboys’ outrage. — Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing porn

• anti-porn

Rhymes for porn

• borne
• bourn
• bourne
• corn
• morn
• morne
• mourn
• scorn
• shorn
• sworn
• thorn
• torn