ROCKY HORROR SHOW, THE


Meaning of ROCKY HORROR SHOW, THE in English

ˌRocky ˈHorror ˌShow, The BrE AmE

( 1973) a humorous British ↑ musical (=a play that uses singing and dancing to tell a story) , which was made into a film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), about a young man and woman who arrive at a big house on a dark night. The house is owned by a strange man who wears women's sexy underwear and is a crazy scientist, who is trying to make the perfect man. The film is very popular with some people, who know all the words and who go to the cinema or the theatre dressed as their favourite character.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.