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Britcore

Britcore noun: a fast subgenre of UK rap that emerged in the late 1980s.

Noun

Britcore (uncountable)

  1. A fast subgenre of UK rap that emerged in the late 1980s.
    • But by 1988 the dominant UK offshoot of American hip hop isn't reggae-rap but ‘Britcore’, a hyper-speed blizzard of noise indebted to Public Enemy.2005 January 23, Steve Yates, “Rhymin' and stealin'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin of Britcore

From Brit + -core.

Questions about Britcore

What does Britcore mean?
Britcore means a fast subgenre of UK rap that emerged in the late 1980s.
What part of speech is Britcore?
Britcore is a noun.

Words near Britcore in the dictionary

  1. britchka
  2. britchkas
  3. Britcliffe
  4. Britcom
  5. Britcoms
  6. Britcore
  7. Britfag
  8. Britfags
  9. Britflick
  10. Britflicks
  11. Britfolk

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