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rock-'n'-roll
[ rok-uhn-rohl ]
noun
- a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure.
adjective
- of or relating to this music.
verb (used without object)
- to dance to or play rock-'n'-roll.
rock 'n' roll
- Popular music combining elements of blues (or rhythm and blues), gospel music , and country and western music , and known for its strong beat and urgent lyrics. Well-known early, pioneering rock 'n' roll artists or groups include Chuck Berry , Buddy Holly, the Supremes, the Beatles , the Rolling Stones, and Elvis Presley .
Other Word Forms
- dz--DZİ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of rock-'n'-roll1
Example Sentences
You’ve got to be the only guy in rock ‘n’ roll history who wrote a song where you’re talking about hardness and stickiness and it’s not about sex.
The world circa 2025 could use two hours of an ear-splitting sing-along with 70,000 like-minded denizens, celebrating the working-class joys of booze, broads and rock ‘n’ roll.
"Comedy slowly became rock 'n' roll."
It is absolutely true, as Leslie chronicles in painstaking fashion, that Lennon and McCartney shared a closeness during their formative years through The Beatles’ final months as a working rock ‘n’ roll band.
She’s also started a new all-star, all-female band with Baseball Project drummer Linda Pitmon, singer-guitarist Brix Smith of the Fall and Pogues bassist-singer Cáit O’Riordan called Psycher, and is getting ready to start writing a sequel to her acclaimed 2020 book “All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir.”
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