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English
Etymology
anti- + rock
Adjective
antirock (not comparable)
- (music) Opposed to rock music
2002 October 11, Cliff Doerksen, “Same Old Song and Dance”, in Chicago Reader:In their darkest hour, the antirock interests received a gift from the gods: the quiz-show scandal of 1958.
Translations
Noun
antirock (uncountable)
- (music) Rock music that deliberately goes against the usual conventions of the genre
2006 November 10, Jessica Hopper, “Ten Under the Radar”, in Chicago Reader:Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.
Translations
rock that deliberately goes against conventions