Antirock

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Rock music that deliberately goes against the usual conventions of the genre uncountable

    "Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposed to rock music not-comparable

    "In their darkest hour, the antirock interests received a gift from the gods: the quiz-show scandal of 1958."

Example

More examples

"In their darkest hour, the antirock interests received a gift from the gods: the quiz-show scandal of 1958."

Etymology

From anti- + rock.

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