rock-and-roll

Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

rock-and-roll

or rock 'n' roll (rŏk′ən-rōl′)

See rock².

intr.v. rock-and-rolled, rock-and-roll·ing, rock-and-rolls or rock 'n' rolled or rock 'n' roll·ing or rock 'n' rolls

1. To dance to rock music.

2. Informal To start doing something; begin: It's 8:00 am, let's rock-and-roll, or we'll never finish on time.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

rock-and-roll - a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."

rock and roll, rock music, rock 'n' roll, rock'n'roll, rock

popular music, popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)

heavy metal music, heavy metal - loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery

art rock, progressive rock - a style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing

acid rock, psychedelic rock - a musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience

punk rock, punk - rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock

backbeat - a loud steady beat

Translations

rock-and-roll

[ˌrɒkənˈrəʊl] ADJ a rock-and-roll band/singer → un grupo/cantante de rocanrol or rock and roll
see also rock ²

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

References in periodicals archive ?

A mystery thriller translated from the French, Belgian author Paul Colize's novel follows a journalist's investigation into the connection between deaths of a rock-and-roll band's members and another death separated by forty years.

Paul Colize: Back Up

The eighth music CD by award-winning artist Wayne Potash, Rock & Roll Party consists of sixteen kid-tested, rock-and-roll songs.

Rock & Roll Party

Rock-and-roll fans will enjoy reading about Aronoff's adventures with Mellencamp, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and other big names, but in the end, what makes the book work are the same things that propel Aronoff's music: a steady beat, impeccable timing, and always hitting hard.

Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll! The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business

From the marketing of politicians to the ramifications and cultural views of psychotropic drugs, no issue with a tangible connection to rock-and-roll goes overlooked.

Teenage Nervous Breakdown

Ferry also plans to roll out a rock-and-roll unit for large parts that delivers better wall-thickness uniformity, allowing for possible part-weight reductions.

Rotomolders hear new ways to make better parts, cut costs

BRITISH rock-and-roll legend Marty Wilde will roll back the years to the 1950s when he appears with his band at Bedworth Civic Hall on Saturday.

Wilde night out at Civic Hall

Boldly confronts mind-bending issues of gender and sexuality with his rock-and-roll fairy tale Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a movie that grabs you by the heart, not the head.