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Definition of Rock-and-roll
1. Noun. A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western. "Rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."
Generic synonyms: Popular Music, Popular Music Genre
Specialized synonyms: Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal Music, Art Rock, Progressive Rock, Acid Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Punk, Punk Rock
Terms within: Backbeat
Examples of category: Backbeat
Definition of Rock-and-roll
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of rock and roll) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock-and-roll
Literary usage of Rock-and-roll
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Why Can't I See the Angels?: Children's Questions to a Sufi Saint by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (2002)
"Rock and roll is absolutely useless. It just ends up in hell. ... BAWA MUHAIYADDEEN:
Do not think about rock and roll. Just learn wisdom. ..."
2. How to Do Science Experiments with Children by Joan Bentley (2003)
"Label the top of the graph "Can You Rock and Roll?" 2. Distribute an investigation
sheet and a coffee can icon to each student. 3. ..."
3. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"The primal force behind the area's rebirth has been the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum (daily; $21; 888/764-ROCK), ..."
4. Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality and edited by Mary Frances Berry (2000)
"I came here 6 years ago to pursue my dream as a rock and roll entertainer.
And I have found that 40 years of rock and roll industry since the beginning of ..."
5. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee concordance of the Old Testament[based by William De Burgh (1860)
"... and dwell IH the rock, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and roll
thee down from Me roc*«, she set it upon the top of a roc*; ..."
6. Youth & Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages edited by Hank Resnik (1994)
"But it was also partly because :hurches and newspapers denounced rock and roll
that it became understood 3y a good part of its audience as an act of ..."