precode

See also: pre-Code

English

Adjective

precode (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of pre-Code.
  2. Prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968.
    • 2007 April 22, Terrence Rafferty, “The Infinite Variety of the Lady Stanwyck”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2024:
      The other precode film in the retrospective, Frank Capra’s “Bitter Tea of General Yen” (also 1933), isn’t quite so junkily entertaining.

Verb

precode (third-person singular simple present precodes, present participle precoding, simple past and past participle precoded)

  1. To code in advance

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