smell-o-rama

noun

A fictional name for technology that reproduces odor.

Meanings

nounsmell-o-rama (plural smell-o-ramas)

plural smell-o-ramas

  1. informalA fictional name for technology that reproduces odor.

    2003±, David R. Ambos, Letters from The Nude Lake (and other Historic Monuments), page 137, Trafford Publishing the 4:44 Geary is one of the few buses also produced in Full Stereophonic Smell-O-Rama.

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    Scoffers will duly scoff as they did at sound, color, and wide screen. On the other hand, Smellorama did not catch on -- most movies manage to smell without it.

    1995 May 15, John Simon, “Wings of Courage”, in National Review

    I inhale slowly not wanting to miss any ounce of nature’s freely provided version of smell-o-rama.

    2000 September, L. B. Sedlacek, Suicide Pumpkins: A Love Story, Xlibris Corporation, page 86

    At the end, I had managed to transform my humiliation into a triumph of smell-o-rama weaponry. I wore my odors now as a badge, a rite of passage

    2002 October, Reginald E. Zelnik, Robert Cohen, The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, University of California Press, page 188

    The cashier gave us Smell-o-rama cards with scratch-n-sniff odors like sweaty sneakers and shit.

    2006 May, Richard Grayson, And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street, Lulu.com, page 136

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*smalljan
  2. Old English*smiellan
  3. Middle Englishsmellen
  4. Englishsmell
  5. Englishsmell-o-rama

From smell + -o-rama.

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