How to Use gross-out in a Sentence

gross-out

noun
Definition of gross-outnext
  • At the risk of spoiling the film’s big and best gross-out scenes, look out for the rat.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
  • The gross-outs in the middle of the movie are much more effective than anything at the end.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 May 2024
  • What was the shower like after stripping off the gross-out clothing?
    — Danielle Sepulveres, Outside Online, 26 July 2021
  • Still, the swearing and gross-out humor loses its bite after a while.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The comic has gained notice on the long-running NBC late-night series for bizarre humor that blends gross-out jokes with a taste for the absurd.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The title of this gross-out screwball bro-comedy pretty much says it all.
    — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • So there's gross-out stuff with the worms, ghostly things, psychological thriller type of stuff, etc.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The usual scarcities in modern screen comedy: visual finesse and some wit to go with the gross-out stuff.
    — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There’s gross-out horror where someone covers their eyes.
    — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In an email exchange with The Takeout regarding the gross-out factor of his bit, gazpachomachine, who goes by Gaz, lends credence to the critics.
    — Jonathan Dale / The Takeout, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Now the man known for gross-out is the subject of an exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The loving strand of gross-out humor running through Yang’s work — one of his first graphic novels involves a spaceship flying up a kid’s nose — owes something to Ah-Tong.
    — Jamie Fisher, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Our list of stunts includes an array of stealthy food swaps, suspicious shoe gags, bath time switcheroo and plenty of gross-out humor (from faux doggie doo to imposter creepy crawlies).
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Following her son on a date to the zoo, Vera is bitten by the creature, and cannibalism, necrophilia, and other gross-out acts of gore ensue.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But the bond between the four women — and occasional lack thereof — demands repeat viewing much more than the sporadic shocks of gross-out (and grapefruit) humor.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
  • Allison and Jason are led from one lethal gross-out game to the next, each a sick-joke parody of some first-date activity that people who met online might engage in.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Here are the 10 best zombie movies on Netflix right now, from raunchy comedies to character dramas and gross-out extravaganzas.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The idea of combining the cleaner elements of a gross-out comedy with horror, action and other summer movie thrills pretty much reset the board.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But this Dead Ringers isn’t just a gross-out examination of the dehumanizing way that Western medicine treats childbirth.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In another gross-out scene, Audrey projectile-vomits in a nightclub.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • Streaming on Prime from March 7, the movie might tap into the nostalgia of audiences raised on the Farrelly brand of goofy raunch, gross-out laughs, slapstick, escalating chaos and sticky sentiment.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • At Sundance, where the film premiered, audience members reportedly walked out in sizable numbers, turned off by the film’s myriad gross-outs.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Also, whether as a gross-out joke or a real call to action, the hashtag #JechiedanslaSeinele23juin (basically, a protest by poop) began circulating online as a way for those who oppose Hidago to spoil her plan.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 17 July 2024
  • Director Elizabeth Banks, working from an all-over-the-place script by Jimmy Warden, can’t decide if the film is a dark comedy, a gross-out comedy, a crime drama or an out-and-out horror film.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The comedian Eric André is known for absurdist humor and gross-out antics.
    — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 5 June 2023
  • The emphasis here is not on piling up the bodies or following the usual tropes of the horror genre, or his own bloody cinematic past, but rather keeping it for the most part (yes, there are a couple of gross-outs) in the psychological realm.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
  • But this gross-out humor always sat awkwardly alongside the show’s more sober-minded themes, and that tonal contrast is exacerbated in the revival, as the series has grown heavier with the characters’ regrets.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The public generally knows Baron Cohen as a British entertainer who likes to push stories and situations to the edge, reveling in crass, gross-out humor that also can be politically and socially charged.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The public generally knows Baron Cohen as a British entertainer who likes to push stories and situations to the edge, reveling in crass, gross-out humor that also can be politically and socially charged.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024

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