(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a film. (AM; also BRIT INFORMAL)
In the first ~ Tony Curtis ever made he played a grocery clerk.
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2.
You can talk about the ~s when you are talking about seeing a ~ in a ~ theater. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use the cinema )
He took her to the ~s.
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