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Blockbuster edit

Blockbuster edit
 n.— «Wal-Mart and Blockbuster, along with other of the nations largest retailers, won’t sell anything with an NC-17 (or anything that is unrated), and if they don’t stock your movie you may as well not bothered to have made it. Inevitably, the film gets cut to what the industry calls a “Blockbuster edit.”» —“Sex, Violence, and the American Way” by M. Faust Artvoice (Buffalo, New York) Dec. 6, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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