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sophisti-pop

sophisti-pop noun: a subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK.

Noun

sophisti-pop (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK.
    • The fact that the intellectual Green [Gartside] was also a friend and protégé of leading post-structuralist scholar, Jacques Derrida, served further to hype the postmodern playfulness of his sophisti-pop.2012, Iain Ellis, Brit Wits: A History of British Rock Humor, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 102

Origin of sophisti-pop

Blend of sophisticated + pop, coined retrospectively.

Questions about sophisti-pop

What does sophisti-pop mean?
Sophisti-pop means a subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK.
What part of speech is sophisti-pop?
Sophisti-pop is a noun.

Words near sophisti-pop in the dictionary

  1. sophism
  2. sophisms
  3. sophist
  4. sophister
  5. sophisters
  6. sophisti-pop
  7. sophistic
  8. sophistical
  9. sophistically
  10. sophisticalness
  11. sophisticant

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