oater meaning
noun (N Am inf)
A Wild West film, a horse opera
A Wild West film, a horse opera
[American slang]
n. a Western movie. (From the oats that the horses eat.)
• I don't want to see an oater. Isn't anything else showing?
• Let's go out and see a good oldfashioned oater.
Examples
More: Next- Data also takes up stereotypical oater mannerisms and vernacular, unaware.
- :I've seen " oater " used occasionally to mean a action movie.
- Gordon Parks Jr .'s fondly remembered and video-unavailable blaxploitation oater, starring Vonetta McGee.
- Tom Selleck stars in another cable oater, directed by Simon Wincer ( " Lonesome Dove " ).
- "oater " ( a western ) and " ankle " ( to quit a job ).