Note: in BRIT, also use 'bastardised'
If you refer to something as a ~ form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality. (FORMAL)
ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval
Note: in BRIT, also use 'bastardised'
If you refer to something as a ~ form of something else, you mean that the first thing is similar to or copied from the second thing, but is of much poorer quality. (FORMAL)
ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012