rock-and-roll

[rok-uhn-rohl]

noun

1. a variant of rock-'n'-roll.

rock and roll

noun

1. 1. a type of pop music originating in the 1950s as a blend of rhythm and blues and country and western. It is generally based upon the twelve-bar blues, the first and third beats in each bar being heavily accented

   2. ( as modifier )

      the rock-and-roll era

2. dancing performed to such music, with exaggerated body movements stressing the beat

verb

1. (intr) to perform this dance

Other Word Forms

• rock and roller noun

Example Sentences

After a career marked by a meteoric rise, legendary spats, a celebrated breakup and a globally acclaimed reunion, Oasis has certainly earned its rock-and-roll stripes, making the partnership with Adidas feel especially fitting.

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The finest rock-and-roll biographies are defined by their capacity for losing the reader inside the music.

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“I remember right before ‘El Camino’ thinking this might be too rock-and-roll for our base,” Carney says, “but to me the change was a sign we weren’t phoning it in.”

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“It was 24 hours a day of worrying, trying to keep the creeps away. Fame and money in rock-and-roll — it’s all a very dangerous area to live in.”

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They could all coexist in the same swirl of chaos — belief over logic, loyalty over evidence, vibes over value — what Rush Limbaugh used to call a “phony-baloney plastic banana good-time rock-and-roll” kind of thing.

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Related Words

• popular music