ROCK AND ROLL meaning: Energetic music with rebellious spirit

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word rock and roll:

General (20 matching dictionaries)

rock and roll: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rock-and-roll, rock and roll: Merriam-Webster
rock and roll: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
rock-and-roll: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
rock-and-roll, rock-and-roll, rock and roll: Collins English Dictionary
rock-and-roll, rock and roll: Vocabulary.com
rock and roll: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
rock-and-roll, rock and roll: Wiktionary
rock-and-roll: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
rock-and-roll: Infoplease Dictionary
rock-and-roll, rock and roll: Dictionary.com
rock-and-roll: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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rock-and-roll, rock and roll: Rhymezone
rock-and-roll, rock and roll: FreeDictionary.org
rock-and-roll, rock and roll: Mnemonic Dictionary
rock-and-roll, rock and roll: TheFreeDictionary.com
Rock and roll: Phrase Finder

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Rock and roll, rock-and-roll, rock and roll, rock and roll: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

rock and roll, rock and roll: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Rock and roll: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
Rock and roll, rock and roll: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rock and roll)

▸ noun:  (music) A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
▸ noun:  (dance) A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
▸ noun:  (especially attributive) An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, characterized by unbridled enthusiasm, hedonism, and cynical regard for authoritarian bodies.
▸ noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.
▸ noun:  (military, slang, US) The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
▸ noun:  (film, television) The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.
▸ verb:  (dated slang, euphemistic, 1920s, African-American Vernacular) To have sex.
▸ verb:  To play rock and roll music.
▸ verb:  To start, commence, begin, get moving.

Opposite:

easy listening, elevator music, muzak, adult contemporary

Types:

blues rock, hard rock, punk rock, classic rock, alternative rock, heavy metal, grunge, psychedelic rock, more...

Phrases:

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Over, Origins of rock and roll, Death by Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll All Nite, more...

Adjectives:

indie, metal, hardcore, lo-fi, emo, countrypolitan, metalloid, softcore, countryish, wonky, floaty

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