Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "rock and roll" []

  • A style of popular music characterized by a basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, drums, and vocals (generally with bass guitar). Generally used to refer to the 1950’s rock, and rock of its style, quite close to swing. (noun)
  • Style of vigorous dancing associated with this 1950’s music. (noun)
  • An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music (generally from the 1970s–1980s), and heavy metal bearing certain elements of this music, pertaining to unbridled enthusiasm, cynical regard for certain Christian and authoritarian bodies, and attitudes befitting some degree of youthful debauchery. This meaning is sometimes used as an exclamation, in describing traits of certain people, and so on. (noun)
  • (rhyming slang) dole. (noun)
  • To play rock and roll music. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Use "rock and roll" in a sentence
  • "He told me that when Susan Baker and Tipper Gore were exposing the dangerous, sick, ugly words that were hidden in the rock and roll music that the kids are listening to, Hustler magazine had a picture of the two of them as “A—h-l-s of the Month.”"
  • "I followed Gus on his first ever rock and roll tour—with his deathcore quintet Funereal Winch—which took him and his $150 bass paid for by a miserable summer working at Quiznos through suburban Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania, and I followed him through all the exploded friendships and busted feelings that resulted from it."
  • "She could hear the shuffling at the door, the rock and roll playing in the limo, the bong bubbling, lines being chopped on a CD case, and a male voice repeating the phrase "sweet blue titties" over and over like a mantra."