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lolicore

lolicore noun: a subgenre of breakcore that is characterised by heavily distorted and pitch-shifted samples, typically taken from anime, and often inspired by Japanese otaku culture.

Noun

lolicore (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of breakcore that is characterised by heavily distorted and pitch-shifted samples, typically taken from anime, and often inspired by Japanese otaku culture.

Origin of lolicore

From loli + -core. Loli Ripe, an anonymous Internet collective active on 4chan claims to have coined the term in 2006, with their album "Little sweet Dolores, although its true origins are unknown due to a lack of archived online interaction.

Questions about lolicore

What does lolicore mean?
Lolicore means a subgenre of breakcore that is characterised by heavily distorted and pitch-shifted samples, typically taken from anime, and often inspired by Japanese otaku culture.
What part of speech is lolicore?
Lolicore is a noun.

Words near lolicore in the dictionary

  1. lolibait
  2. lolicom
  3. lolicoms
  4. lolicon
  5. lolicons
  6. lolicore
  7. loliginid
  8. loliginids
  9. loligo
  10. loligos
  11. loligosepiid

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