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brostep

brostep noun: a harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.

Noun

brostep (uncountable)

  1. A harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.
    • In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity.2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, new and revised edition, Faber & Faber, →ISBN
    • By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers

Origin of brostep

From bro + -step.

Questions about brostep

What does brostep mean?
Brostep means a harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.
What part of speech is brostep?
Brostep is a noun.

Words near brostep in the dictionary

  1. Brosseau
  2. Brosseaus
  3. Brossman
  4. Brossmans
  5. Brost
  6. brostep
  7. Broster
  8. Brostrom
  9. Brostroms
  10. Brosts
  11. brosuximide

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