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New wave

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Representing the latest and most advanced style.

    "That girl is pretty wild now / The girl's a super freak / The kind of girl you read about / In new wave magazines"

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several movements in music and film which are or were considered cutting edge. uncountable
  2. 2
    An alternative and broad pop and rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s, incorporating punk sensibilities and/or other forms of music, but made with more accessibility. uncountable

    "New York to east California / There's a new wave coming, I warn ya"

  3. 3
    any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) wordnet
  4. 4
    an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s wordnet

Etymology

Calque of French Nouvelle Vague.

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