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popstream

popstream noun: the musical mainstream, as typified by pop music.

Noun

popstream (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) The musical mainstream, as typified by pop music.
    • Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, page 420
    • Genuine remixers of sound and traditions, and typically estranged from the cultural popstream, each of these cultural brokers maintained vast collections of fresh material enabled by networks of exchange […]2013, Simone Krüger, Ruxandra Trandafoiu, The Globalization of Musics in Transit

Origin of popstream

Blend of pop + mainstream.

Questions about popstream

What does popstream mean?
Popstream means the musical mainstream, as typified by pop music.
What part of speech is popstream?
Popstream is a noun.

Words near popstream in the dictionary

  1. popsocks
  2. popstar
  3. popstars
  4. popster
  5. popsters
  6. popstream
  7. popstrel
  8. popstrels
  9. popstress
  10. popstresses
  11. popsy

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