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ROCKABILLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rockabilly mean?
• ROCKABILLY (noun)
The noun ROCKABILLY has 1 sense:
1. a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
Familiarity information: ROCKABILLY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rockabilly" is a kind of...):
popular music; popular music genre (any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time))
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