Meanings
plural smell-o-ramas
- 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 ReviewI 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 86At 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 188The 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
- Proto-West Germanic*smalljan
- Old English*smiellan
- Middle Englishsmellen
- Englishsmell
- Englishsmell-o-rama
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