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what does rock and roll mean?

ROCK AND ROLL as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s
    • a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock”n”roll.
    Hypernyms(s) rock and roll is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s)
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what does rock-and-roll mean?

ROCK-AND-ROLL as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s
    • a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock”n”roll.
    Hypernyms(s) rock-and-roll is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s)
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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