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pop-cultural

pop-cultural adjective: pertaining to pop culture.

Adjective

pop-cultural (comparative more pop-cultural, superlative most pop-cultural)

  1. Pertaining to pop culture.
    • It suggests how deeply the comics had implanted themselves in kidhood consciousness in only their second decade as a normative pop-cultural universe; how shocking and yet irresistible we found each new and more subversive permutation; and how recklessly indifferent to adult America’s ever hardening...2008 March 23, Ron Powers, “Penny Dreadfuls”, in New York Times
    • In ‘The mental diaspora of the networks’, Baudrillard offers a way to read the effect of réalité intégrale in rendering impotent media exposure of presidential misdeeds and incompetence as well as providing insight into some of the current regime’s most symptomatic pop-cultural moments.2009, Diane Rubenstein, “Reality: now and then – Baudrillard and W-Bush’s America”, in David B. Clarke, Marcus A. Doel, William Merrin, Richard G. Smith, editors, Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories...

Forms of pop-cultural

comparativemore pop-cultural
superlativemost pop-cultural
alternative formpop cultural

Questions about pop-cultural

What does pop-cultural mean?
Pop-cultural means pertaining to pop culture.
What part of speech is pop-cultural?
Pop-cultural is an adjective.

Words near pop-cultural in the dictionary

  1. pop wine
  2. pop wines
  3. pop wood
  4. pop'n
  5. pop-corn
  6. pop-cultural
  7. pop-eye
  8. pop-eyed
  9. pop-eyes
  10. pop-in
  11. pop-out

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