Butt-rock

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Rock and roll music of a style or subgenre disparaged as uninteresting or out of fashion. derogatory, humorous, informal, uncountable

    "Somebody wrote this ad copy who doesn't know anything about music, probably just listens to your average butt-rock AOR (adult-oriented-rock) station."

Example

More examples

"Somebody wrote this ad copy who doesn't know anything about music, probably just listens to your average butt-rock AOR (adult-oriented-rock) station."

Etymology

Said to have begun as a parody of the phrase nothing but rock, reanalyzed as butt + rock.

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