1
: one that reels
2
: a motion picture having a specified number of reels
a two-reeler
Examples of reeler in a Sentence
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Then it was shown in back rooms on 8mm one-reelers.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2023
The book itself brims filled with neurotic psychotics and Pop Culture debris, kooky killers with offbeat nicknames and more spilled Type O than a blood bank in a Mack Sennett two-reeler.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
This is the theater where San Franciscans long gone went to see two-reelers, discovered Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford and, later, Clark Gable and Bette Davis.
—Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2017
In short, the skin flick had traveled a long way technically form the out-of-focus Candy Barr two-reeler.
—Pete Hamill, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Sep. 2017
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Mar. 2023
The book itself brims filled with neurotic psychotics and Pop Culture debris, kooky killers with offbeat nicknames and more spilled Type O than a blood bank in a Mack Sennett two-reeler.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
This is the theater where San Franciscans long gone went to see two-reelers, discovered Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford and, later, Clark Gable and Bette Davis.
—Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2017
In short, the skin flick had traveled a long way technically form the out-of-focus Candy Barr two-reeler.
—Pete Hamill, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Sep. 2017
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“Reeler.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reeler. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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