The cinema floor was covered in grunge deposited by the crowds.
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Grunge
//ɡɹʌnd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "grunge" (9 found)
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23 translations across 14 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qranj noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гръндж noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Esperanto
1 entries- grunĝo noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Finnish
2 entries- grunge noun (subgenre of alternative music)
- lika noun (dirt, filth)
French
1 entries- grunge noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Georgian
1 entries- გრანჟი noun (subgenre of alternative music)
German
3 entries- Dreck noun (dirt, filth)
- Grunge noun (subgenre of alternative music)
- Schmutz noun (dirt, filth)
Italian
1 entries- grunge noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Korean
1 entries- 그런지 noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Marathi
1 entries- ग्रन्ज noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Norwegian
2 entries- grunge noun (subgenre of alternative music)
- grønsj noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Polish
4 entries- grunge noun (subgenre of alternative music)
- obrzydlistwo noun (dirt, filth)
- ohydztwo noun (dirt, filth)
- paskudztwo noun (dirt, filth)
Russian
1 entries- гранж noun (subgenre of alternative music)
Swedish
3 entries- grunge noun (subgenre of alternative music)
- lort noun (dirt, filth)
- smuts noun (dirt, filth)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Chad used to work as a coal miner, but couldn't handle the constant grunge.
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Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.
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Grunge was the de facto soundtrack of the early nineties. It’s also sometimes criticized for its sonic limitations—most groups played the same way, at the same speed and with the same worldview, usually mining the same handful of influences. It was, by design, a derivative musical form. But it did introduce at least one new idea to mainstream rock: a collective sense of self-aware skepticism.
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