dwarfsploitation

noun

The exploitation of little people in the media (especially film and television).

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Meanings

noundwarfsploitation (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe exploitation of little people in the media (especially film and television).

    2000, Marc Spitz, "All The Small Things: Deconstructing Dwarfsploitation in Music Videos", Spin, September 2000, page 70 (used in title only)

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    I'm 3'8" tall. I'm realistic. I'm never going to be a leading man, unless some clueless script writer get's^([sic]) it into his head to write a dwarfsploitation film.

    2011, C. M. Dabbah, The House of Shades, Red Lead Press, →ISBN, page 119

    A genre in its own right, For Y'ur Height Only completely corners the spy-martial arts-dwarfsploitation market that the world was crying out for in 1981.

    2014 March 14, “Badly-dubbed bad guys get punched in the crotch... a lot”, in The Weekend, number 95, page 40

Origin

From dwarf + -sploitation.

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dwarfsploitation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dwarfsploitation

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“dwarfsploitation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dwarfsploitation. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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