hard-rock

hard rock

noun
the original form of rock-'n'-roll, basically dependent on a consistently loud and strong beat.
Compare soft rock.


Origin:
1965–70

hard rocker, noun

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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hard-rock

[hahrd-rok]
adjective
(loosely) of or pertaining to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology).


Origin:
1920–25
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