page-turner
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See also: pageturner
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Noun[edit]
page-turner (plural page-turners)
- A written work which is sufficiently interesting or suspenseful to keep the reader “turning the pages”.
- Her debut novel is such a page-turner that it's one of those books that you can't put down.
- (music) A person who is responsible for turning the pages of another musician’s (especially a pianist or organist’s) sheet music during a performance.
- She's a famous soloist today, but she did her time as a page-turner, just as many others have done.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see page, turner.
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Translations[edit]
suspenseful written work
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person who turns another musician's pages
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Further reading[edit]
- page-turner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia