pre-Code

See also: precode

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ code.

Adjective

pre-Code (not comparable)

1. Prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968.
   • 2005, Richard Barrios, Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall:

     The Sign of the Cross, in certain senses the ultimate pre-Code movie, can still have a queasying ^[sic] effect on viewers with its arena brutality, and its effect on 1933 audiences was that much stronger

Alternative forms

• precode

Anagrams

• copered, proceed