rock-'n'-roll
noun
a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure.
rock-'n'-roller
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a word derived from
rock-'n'-roll.
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"I think the people at the record company expected some kind of wild-assed rock-'n'-roller," Cooder recalls of that first solo album.
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Wearing a satin-lapelled dressing gown and high-heeled clunkers, John plays a senile rock-'n'-roller incarcerated in a rest home along with an equally decayed Bette Midler and Flip Wilson.
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Or is it the legendary rock-'n'-roller Buddy Holly, who was killed in a plane crash in 1959?
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Ann-Margret, as the girl from Sweet Apple, Ohio, who gets involved with a mush-mouthed rock-'n'-roller named Conrad Birdie, can't fool anybody into believing that she is 16 years old.
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And in the 1970s, David Bowie took on the role of Ziggy Stardust, an otherworldly rock-'n'-roller.
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