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terrorwave

terrorwave noun: vaporwave music and art with terrorist and militant themes.

Noun

terrorwave (uncountable)

  1. Vaporwave music and art with terrorist and militant themes.
    • Journalist Jake Hanrahan has described terrorwave as removing “the reality of the violence war brings” while revealing how “bored young men in the West desire a violent past they’ve no perception of.”2023 May 4, Joshua Molloy, “Terrorwave: The Aesthetics of Violence and Terrorist Imagery in Militant Accelerationist Subcultures”, in Global Network on Extremism and Technology

Origin of terrorwave

From terror + -wave.

Questions about terrorwave

What does terrorwave mean?
Terrorwave means vaporwave music and art with terrorist and militant themes.
What part of speech is terrorwave?
Terrorwave is a noun.

Words near terrorwave in the dictionary

  1. terrors
  2. terrorsome
  3. terrorsploitation
  4. terrorstricken
  5. terrorstruck
  6. terrorwave
  7. terrour
  8. terrours
  9. terrs
  10. terry
  11. terry cloth

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