no-brow

no-brow

1. adjective Having absolutely no value in terms of culture, quality, or intelligence; below lowbrow. The film is so vulgar, so thoroughly enamored with its own despicable filth, that it isn't even lowbrow—it's no-brow. The play is just one no-brow sex joke after another.
2. adjective A person who consumes and enjoys media of this caliber or description. Rundown places like this one attract the no-brows crawling out of the woodwork of the city.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

no-brow

n. a stupid person. (Patterned on lowbrow.) Sam is a complete no-brow. No culture, no sense of style, and no money.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • lowbrow
  • bulletproof
  • appropriate for
  • as the day is long
  • highbrow
  • weird and wonderful
  • than a bygod
  • preppie
  • preppy
  • as (something) as the next man/woman/person
References in periodicals archive
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Ode to Poet Laureate
Helmer Stephan Elliott boldly goes where almost no one wanted him to go again toward "Welcome to WoopWoop's" no-brow scatology while "Death at a Funeral" scribe Dean Craig recycles that hit's ideas in "A Few Best Men," the kind of bottom-feeding yuckfest where a character's slip in dog poo within the first minutes sets the tenor for the next 90 or so.
A Few Best Men
We can't all be gifted auteurs, and it's difficult to imagine that this presentation was really designed to instantiate a no-brow populist school of cinema.
Michel Gondry: Deitch Projects
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'I'm a classic no-brow. It doesn't matter to me whether it's Chaucer or the Sex Pistols'
They said
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Spain sees green in grossers
The Guide to Shopping historicizes our (ever more homogenized) no-brow brandscape as it channels its performative shtick.
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