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The Italian graduate absorbed second-class morning movie (7)

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labamba

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'the italian' is the definition.
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'graduate absorbed second-class morning movie' is the wordplay.
'graduate' becomes 'BA' (someone with a Bachelor of Arts degree).
'absorbed' is an insertion indicator.
'second-class' becomes 'l' (and letter of 'class').
'morning' becomes 'am' (as in ba:00 AM).
'movie' becomes 'ba' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'l'+'am'='lam'
'ba' going within 'lam' is 'labam'.
'labam'+'ba'='LABAMBA'

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