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krautrock

krautrock noun: a genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.

Noun (1)

krautrock (uncountable)

  1. (capitalized, sometimes) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
    • Many krautrock bands arose out of the West German student counterculture and connected leftist political activism with experimental rock music and, later, electronic sounds.2016, Ulrich Adelt, Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 2

Noun (2) capitalized: Krautrock

Krautrock (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of krautrock.

Synonyms of krautrock

Forms of krautrock

alternative formKrautrock

Origin of krautrock

From Kraut (“German”) + rock (“rock music”).

Questions about krautrock

What does krautrock mean?
Krautrock means a genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.
What part of speech is krautrock?
Krautrock is a noun.

Words near krautrock in the dictionary

  1. Krautheads
  2. Krauths
  3. krauting
  4. krautish
  5. krautite
  6. krautrock
  7. krauts
  8. Krautwagon
  9. Krautwagons
  10. Krav
  11. krav maga

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