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freakbeat

noun

Etymology

From freak + beat, coined by English music journalist Philip Lloyd-Smee.

  1. derived from *bautaną✻ — “to push, strike”
  2. derived from *bautan✻
  3. derived from bēatan — “to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”
  4. inherited from beten
  5. compounded as freakbeat — “freak + beat”

Definitions

  1. A genre of hard-driving British rock music, often from the 1960s and associated with a…

    A genre of hard-driving British rock music, often from the 1960s and associated with a mod following.

    • The couple had already put in the hard yards: Fred started out in '60s freakbeat combos The Weeds and Lollipop Shoppe, with Toody joining him in early '80s punk trio The Rats.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA