rock and roll

Definitions of rock and roll
  1. noun
    a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
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    type of:
    musique populaire
    any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
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