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Meanings of rock-and-roll in English
A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western.
Synonyms
Examples for "rock"
Examples for "rock"
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He said: ''My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.''
2
Four Icelanders and an American asked the question: Can rock climbing help?
3
The government plans to control the state before hitting rock-bottom, he said.
4
However, local climbers have long felt the area's dearth of quality rock.
5
There is a rock rising from a great turquoise sea of sand.
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For many Irish acts, rock'n'roll is here to stay.
2
Adding to the venue's rock'n'roll reputation, Ostermeier also occasionally played bass there with his own band.
3
After more the four decades of Kiwi rock'n'roll, Hello Sailor guitarist Harry Lyon makes a solo album.
4
Rock'n'roll has gone from a linear derivative art form to an abstracted, nominal designation.
5
Rock'n'roll, hard rock and a bit of heavy metal.
1
Away from mainstream pop, Japan's best rock'n'roll bands have always been female.
2
In 2006, he won an Olivier award starring in Tom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll.
3
Outside of work, she chairs the All Russian Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll Federation.
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Photo: supplied Linda Gail Lewis's rock'n'roll credentials are right there in her name.
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The future of rock'n'roll is peanut butter and jelly buffalo wings.
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Glam is perhaps the most derided and disparaged form of rock music.
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Have women yet been accepted in rock music on their own terms?
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The outlaws found a ready audience in the wider rock music culture.
4
It also helped spawn alternative Afrikaans rock music and the Voëlvry movement.
5
The place was a babble of conversation, loud rock music, and laughter.
Usage of rock-and-roll in English
1
Was I looking for something meaningful, or merely hoping for rock-and-roll sex?
2
With a rock-and-roll band that's blasting so you can't hear yourself think.
3
At the start of his rock-and-roll career, Buddy Holly tours with Cooke.
4
The games room has been cleared of rock-and-roll pinball machines and stuffed animals.
5
At least I got two great rock-and-roll records out of it, and credibility.
6
Writer describes how musical habits changed with the advent of rock-and-roll.
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I didn't want him hanging out at clubs and rock-and-roll shows.
8
Had a company back in the States, flew big-name rock-and-roll acts.
9
Someone was running a tape of an example of what the ancients called rock-and-roll.
10
One of the great rock-and-roll tracks of all time, not a drum on it.
11
Hamburg in those days did not have rock-and-roll music clubs.
12
As a young man he was a budding rock-and-roll drummer.
13
He picked the rock-and-roll station that he knew Allyson liked.
14
I hate rock-and-roll, but I really like popular Brazilian music.
15
Demos are made by the rock-and-roll groups of code.
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Everything they'd been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
Translations for rock-and-roll
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