romaction en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of romance + action.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Action romance.
Like the “romaction” genre that fuses relationships and car crashes (think “Date Night” and “Knight and Day”), hard-R comedies like “The Hangover,” “Bad Teacher” and last year’s “Ted” appeal both to young women and their male companions, a “two-quadrant” win that made studio suits swoon.
2013 June 20, Ann Hornaday, “Why the rom-com is almost extinct”, in The Washington Post:One wag has already named the offspring of this shotgun wedding: romaction.
2010 July 6, “How movies became love, camera, action”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:Let's combine the action and the romance and make a romaction story.
2008, 52:48 from the start, in Bedtime Stories:They reject his suggestion, asking instead to hear a story of action and romance. Skeeter then tells them a "romaction story" about Ancient Greece featuring Skeetacus, the inventor of the X Games.
2013, Amie A. Doughty, "Throw the book away": Reading versus Experience in Children's Fantasy: