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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A minor movement in British poetry in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a kind of surrealism in which familiar things are described in unfamiliar ways. uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

martian poetrymartian poetry

Etymology

From Martian + -ism.

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