Brostep
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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