grunge

[ gruhnj ]

/ grʌndʒ /

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noun Slang.

dirt; filth; rubbish.

something of inferior quality; trash: He didn't know good music from grunge.

a person who works hard, usually for meager rewards; grind.

a style or fashion derived from a movement in rock music: in fashion characterized by unkempt clothing and in music by aggressive, nihilistic songs.

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Origin of grunge

1960–65; expressive coinage, perhaps reflecting grime and sludge; sense “grind” perhaps by association with drudge

Words nearby grunge

grundies, grundle, Grundy, Grundyism, Grünewald, grunge, grungy, grunion, Grunitsky, grunt, grunter

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How to use grunge in a sentence

Depending on how you style it, there can be a grunge influence or a pop-punk influence.
Save Us. The Trend of Wearing Skirts Over Pants Is Back.|Alaina Demopoulos|September 27, 2021|The Daily Beast
It was an era, the film contends, that was rampant with anger and sexist objectification, having already replaced the progressive spirit of the early-’90s Grunge moment with a general neanderthal crudeness.
Who Should We Blame for the Death, Riots, and Misogynistic Mayhem of Woodstock ’99?|Nick Schager|July 23, 2021|The Daily Beast
You take all of that and you then move it into Seattle in the ’90s, which was just before the grunge explosion hits.
Reggie Watts! What? Exactly!|Eugene Robinson|May 14, 2021|Ozy
If you’re getting the grunge out of your grout or removing it from the narrow space around faucets, you’ll want a small brush specifically designed for tile and grout cleaning.
Best spin scrubber: For floors so clean, they squeak|PopSci Commerce Team|March 16, 2021|Popular-Science

Grunge makes sense if you're a sad, self-righteous teenager.
Remembering Weezer’s ‘The Blue Album,’ A Garage Rock Classic, on Its 20th Anniversary|Andrew Romano|May 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Seriously—go raid your dusty CaseLogic archives and listen to a bunch of early, non-Nirvana grunge CDs sometime.
Remembering Weezer’s ‘The Blue Album,’ A Garage Rock Classic, on Its 20th Anniversary|Andrew Romano|May 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is a gray, almost grunge-like wedding dress by the designer Gareth Pugh, which he made for his friend Katie Shillingford.
Here Comes the Bride…In Flaming Red: Two Centuries of Colorful Wedding Dresses|Liza Foreman|May 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The fascinating tragedy of Flappy Bird might go down in history as a defining “grunge moment” for videogames.
Addiction & Fame: How Flappy Bird is the App Store’s Grunge Moment|Leigh Alexander|February 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Before Dookie, guitar rock meant grunge: heavy, monotonic, humorless, and bleak.
How Green Day’s ‘Dookie’ Defined the 1990s and Changed Music Forever|Andrew Romano|January 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I paid Grunge the grocer nineteen dollars on't; for he knows I'm an honest man, and trusted me.
In The Saddle|Oliver Optic

British Dictionary definitions for grunge

grunge

/ (ɡrʌndʒ) /

noun

US slang dirt or rubbish

a style of rock music originating in the US in the late 1980s, featuring a distorted guitar sound

a deliberately untidy and uncoordinated fashion style

Word Origin for grunge

C20: possibly a coinage imitating grime + sludge

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