Etymology

acid western

Today it means: A subversive and often surrealist western subgenre associated with 1960s counterculture. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by American film critic Pauline Kael in a review of El Topo (1970).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.