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megapop

megapop noun: highly successful mainstream pop music.

Noun

megapop (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Highly successful mainstream pop music.
    • Word that the Icelandic iconoclast had retwiddled the results of her in-studio tryst with Mr. Mosely dashed any hopes that she'd abandon herself to horny megapop escapism.2007, SPIN, volume 23, number 6, page 90
    • The last remaining bankable megapop titan hanging out with an Internet-fueled hip-hop star — what a world!2015 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles”, in New York Times

Forms of megapop

alternative formmega-pop

Origin of megapop

From mega- + pop.

Questions about megapop

What does megapop mean?
Megapop means highly successful mainstream pop music.
What part of speech is megapop?
Megapop is a noun.

Words near megapop in the dictionary

  1. megapolises
  2. megapolitan
  3. megapolitans
  4. megapolitical
  5. megapolitics
  6. megapop
  7. megapopular
  8. megapopulation
  9. megapopulations
  10. megaport
  11. megaportal

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