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grunge

[ gruhnj ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Slang.

dirt; filth; rubbish.
something of inferior quality; trash:
He didn't know good music from grunge.
a person who works hard, usually for meager rewards; grind.
a style or fashion derived from a movement in rock music: in fashion characterized by unkempt clothing and in music by aggressive, nihilistic songs.

grunge

/ ɡrʌndʒ /

slang.
dirt or rubbish
a style of rock music originating in the US in the late 1980s, featuring a distorted guitar sound
a deliberately untidy and uncoordinated fashion style

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Origin of grunge¹

1960–65; expressive coinage, perhaps reflecting grime and sludge; sense “grind” perhaps by association with drudge

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Origin of grunge¹

C20: possibly a coinage imitating grime + sludge

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Grunge makes sense if you're a sad, self-righteous teenager.

Seriously—go raid your dusty CaseLogic archives and listen to a bunch of early, non-Nirvana grunge CDs sometime.

It is a gray, almost grunge-like wedding dress by the designer Gareth Pugh, which he made for his friend Katie Shillingford.

The fascinating tragedy of Flappy Bird might go down in history as a defining “grunge moment” for videogames.

Before Dookie, guitar rock meant grunge: heavy, monotonic, humorless, and bleak.

I paid Grunge the grocer nineteen dollars on't; for he knows I'm an honest man, and trusted me.

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