Definitions

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  • adjective Opposed to rock music
  • adjective Music that deliberately goes against the conventions of rock music

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ rock

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Examples

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    I, Rock Chump Chuck Klosterman 2004

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    I, Rock Chump Chuck Klosterman 2004

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    I, Rock Chump Chuck Klosterman 2004

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003

  • Now—if someone wanted to be critical of EMP as an inadvertently “antirock” entity—this meal would have been a perfect metaphor, as it was the epitome of ruining something visceral.

    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003

  • Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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