leftfield

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Etymology

From left +‎ field.

Adjective

leftfield (not comparable)

  1. From out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.
    • 2009 February 26, Mikey Cahill, “Rock City”, in Herald Sun:
      Deacon's second album, Bromst, will be an intricate merry-go-round of joyous, leftfield compositions.
    • 2020, Joe Muggs, Brian David Stevens, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, MIT Press, →ISBN:
      A lot of the left-field techno producers in this country were moving towards jungle and breakbeat influences then – so it was almost perverse for you to go towards techno.

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