Antirock
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 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.
Related phrases
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