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horror story
noun
: a story about an actual event or experience that is very unpleasant
: an experience that is very unpleasant
Full Definition of HORROR STORY
: an account of an unsettling or unfortunate occurrence <heard horror stories about recent layoffs>; also : something unsettling or unfortunate <his childhood was a horror story>
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First Known Use of HORROR STORY
1937
Rhymes with HORROR STORY
a priori, allegory, amatory, auditory, bedtime story, cacciatore, castratory, category, con amore, cover story, crematory, damnatory, decretory, dilatory, dormitory, excretory, expletory, feudatory, fumitory, Göteborg, gustatory, gyratory, hortatory, hunky-dory, inventory, laudatory, lavatory, mandatory, migratory, minatory, monitory, Montessori, morning glory, nugatory, offertory, oratory, overstory, piscatory, precatory, predatory, prefatory, probatory, promissory, promontory, purgatory, repertory, Ruwenzori, signatory, statutory, sudatory, territory, transitory, understory, vibratory, vomitory, yakitori
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