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antirock

antirock adjective: opposed to rock music.

Adjective

antirock (not comparable)

  1. Opposed to rock music
    • In their darkest hour, the antirock interests received a gift from the gods: the quiz-show scandal of 1958.2002 October 11, Cliff Doerksen, “Same Old Song and Dance”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

antirock (uncountable)

  1. Rock music that deliberately goes against the usual conventions of the genre
    • Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.2006 November 10, Jessica Hopper, “Ten Under the Radar”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of antirock

From anti- + rock.

Questions about antirock

What does antirock mean?
Antirock means opposed to rock music.
What part of speech is antirock?
Antirock can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antirock in the dictionary

  1. antiroad
  2. antirobbery
  3. antirobin
  4. antirobot
  5. antirobotic
  6. antirock
  7. antirocker
  8. antirocket
  9. antirodent
  10. antirodeo
  11. antiroll

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