carsploitation

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noun

A genre of exploitation films focused on cars, typified by scenes of racing and crashing.

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Meanings

nouncarsploitation (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebroadcastingA genre of exploitation films focused on cars, typified by scenes of racing and crashing.

    The film hurtles toward tragic inevitability like Vanishing Point, the classic carsploitation film that Death Proof revises with the triumph of the collective.

    2014, Claire Henry, Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 164–165
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    Death Race is a rehash of the 1975 carsploitation flick Death Race 2000 that predicted a new millennium in which David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone mow down old people for points.

    2008 August 27, Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff, “Total Drag (Race)”, in Santa Fe Reporter

    Cage redefines "up for anything" in this goofy carsploitation movie as a vengeful grandpa on the trail of devil-worshippers who have slaughtered his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter for sacrificial purposes.

    2011 June 2, Randall King, chapter DVD, in Winnipeg Free Press

Origin

From car + -sploitation.

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APA

carsploitation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carsploitation

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“carsploitation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carsploitation. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “carsploitation,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carsploitation.

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