AC/DC
1 Americanadjective
adjective
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of AC/DC
1940–45, for an earlier sense; 1960–65 for this use
Example Sentences
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Bagpipers clinch world record jamming to AC/DC hit.
From MarketWatch
They picked “Back in Black” by AC/DC instead.
Enriquez, a 2022 finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, has long been a kind of rock ’n’ roll maverick in the mode of Rachel Kushner — there are references to Joy Division, Nick Cave and AC/DC — but at heart she’s a moralist.
From Los Angeles Times
A nocturnal animal, he'd bait his prey with crates of vinyl, swooping in for the kill with a perfectly-timed drop of AC/DC's Back In Black or Busta Rhymes' Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See.
From BBC
I stared too long at a black jacket and AC/DC hat worn by the Night Stalker — serial killer Richard Ramirez.
From Los Angeles Times
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