Brostep

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal. uncountable

    "In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity."

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"In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity."

Etymology

Blend of bro + dubstep.

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