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What does rock and roll mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rock and roll? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
  2. A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
  3. 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.
  4. (Cockney rhyming slang) dole.
  5. (military, slang, US) The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
Verb
  1. To play rock and roll music.
  2. To start, commence, begin, get moving.
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