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popadelic

popadelic adjective: having the coolness or style of pop music or pop stars.

Adjective

popadelic (comparative more popadelic, superlative most popadelic)

  1. (slang) Having the coolness or style of pop music or pop stars.
    • Actually, a Scot named Eugene Kelly, who sounds amazingly like Barrett, and his band, Eugenius, have resurrected Barrett's trippy, popadelic sound with early Pink Floyd on their new album, "Mary Queen of Scots."1994, Stereo Review, volume 59, page 167
    • Where Manning's torch diva turns on Sings with the Original Artists shriveled up against spare backing, here they nestle into a winking popadelic hybrid.1995 November, Terri Sutton, “Records: S.F. Seals”, in Spin, volume 11, number 8, page 120

Forms of popadelic

comparativemore popadelic
superlativemost popadelic

Origin of popadelic

From pop + -adelic.

Questions about popadelic

What does popadelic mean?
Popadelic means having the coolness or style of pop music or pop stars.
What part of speech is popadelic?
Popadelic is an adjective.

Words near popadelic in the dictionary

  1. pop.
  2. POP3
  3. Popa
  4. popadam
  5. popadams
  6. popadelic
  7. popadom
  8. popadoms
  9. popadum
  10. popadums
  11. Popal

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