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freakbeat

freakbeat noun: a genre of hard-driving British rock music, often from the 1960s and associated with a mod following.

Noun

freakbeat (uncountable)

  1. A genre of hard-driving British rock music, often from the 1960s and associated with a mod following.
    • The couple had already put in the hard yards: Fred started out in '60s freakbeat combos The Weeds and Lollipop Shoppe, with Toody joining him in early '80s punk trio The Rats.2021 December, Jon Dale, “Dead Moon fever!”, in Uncut, →ISSN, page 8

Origin of freakbeat

From freak + beat, coined by English music journalist Philip Lloyd-Smee.

Questions about freakbeat

What does freakbeat mean?
Freakbeat means a genre of hard-driving British rock music, often from the 1960s and associated with a mod following.
What part of speech is freakbeat?
Freakbeat is a noun.

Words near freakbeat in the dictionary

  1. freak-offs
  2. freak-out
  3. freak-outs
  4. freakazoid
  5. freakazoids
  6. freakbeat
  7. freakdom
  8. freake
  9. freaked
  10. freaked off
  11. freaked out

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