Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word OATER
OATER
Definitions of OATER
- (informal, US, entertainment) A movie or television show about cowboy or frontier life; a western movie.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using OATER in a Sentence
- A horse opera, hoss opera, oat opera or oater is a Western film or television series that is clichéd or formulaic, in the manner of a (later) soap opera or space opera.
- Quite elderly by then, Faversham later appeared in bit roles in talkies, including portraying the Duke of Wellington in the Technicolor production of Becky Sharp and, of all things, playing the heroine's father in the low-budget singing cowboy oater The Singing Buckaroo (1937).
- Upon release of the series' first film Six-Gun Rhythm, Grand National went belly-up, leaving the oater in limited distribution and its newest star in the lurch.
- Reviewing the DVD release in 2013, Gene Triplett of The Oklahoman called the film an "amiable oater" with a plot that "may sound like potential corn on the cob to some" but turns out to be "unexpectedly well-crafted entertainment".
- " of Variety described Payment in Blood as "a gamy slapdash and overly violent Civil War oater drama, made by crude Italian film hands and probably exported in hopes that names of Edd Byrnes and Guy Madison might have the b.
- " The Santa Fe New Mexican also reviewed the film, writing "For a low-budget oater, Shoot First is surprisingly well shot, well acted, and mostly well scripted (though it's a bit talky and repetitious in places).
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