- a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- a movie theater with inexpensive admission pricing that shows low-budget films one after another, throughout the day and all or most of the night.
- of or relating to the low-budget films shown in these theaters, as exploitation films or B-movies: It’s an old grindhouse flick with cannibals hunting teens through an abandoned warehouse.His art films have a cheap grindhouse aesthetic.
- mainly US
- a cinema specializing in violent or exploitative films such as martial arts movies from Japan and Hong Kong
- (as modifier)
