blockbusting

/blˈɒkbʌstɪŋ/

/blˈɑːkbʌstɪŋ/

[adjective]

blockbusting

[ADJECTIVE]

(particularly of a novel, motion picture, etc.) commercially successful in terms of sales and reception

Examples

1. And the practical effect was to accelerate blockbusting.

2. The Newmark Associates case involving signs, for sale signs, arose in the context of blockbusting, when a neighborhood would be having a few black homeowners come in.

3. I have a dream that we can stop thinking that the future will be a nightmare, and this is going to be a challenge, because, if you think of every major blockbusting film of recent times, nearly all of its visions for humanity are apocalyptic.