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prog rock

prog rock noun: clipped compound of progressive rock.

Noun

prog rock (uncountable)

  1. Clipped compound of progressive rock.
    • Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: […]2016 July 7, Alexis Petridis, “Roísín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto review – still too strange for the bigtime”, in The Guardian

Questions about prog rock

What does prog rock mean?
Prog rock means clipped compound of progressive rock.
What part of speech is prog rock?
Prog rock is a noun.

Words near prog rock in the dictionary

  1. profusions
  2. profusive
  3. profusively
  4. profusiveness
  5. prog
  6. prog rock
  7. prog-like
  8. prog-rock
  9. prog.
  10. progabide
  11. progambling

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