butt-rock
butt-rock noun: a style or subgenre of rock and roll music disparaged as uninteresting or out of fashion.
Noun
butt-rock (uncountable)
- A style or subgenre of rock and roll music disparaged as uninteresting or out of fashion.
- Somebody wrote this ad copy who doesn't know anything about music, probably just listens to your average butt-rock AOR (adult-oriented-rock) station.1994 August 7, James Muretich, quoting Kim Thayil, “This is Soundgarten: Kickstarting Rock in the Right Direction”, in Calgary Herald, page A11
- Butt-rock is just the stupidest, three-chord rock that you can possibly play, and it works with big crowds like this who don’t know you as a band.1995, Chris Nickson, quoting Matt Cameron, Soundgarten: New Metal Crown, page 175
Forms of butt-rock
| alternative form | butt rock |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Butt Rock |
Origin of butt-rock
Said to have begun as a parody of the phrase nothing but rock, reanalyzed as butt + rock.
Questions about butt-rock
- What does butt-rock mean?
- Butt-rock means a style or subgenre of rock and roll music disparaged as uninteresting or out of fashion.
- What part of speech is butt-rock?
- Butt-rock is a noun.
Words near butt-rock in the dictionary
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