rockabilly

[ rok-uh-bil-ee ]
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noun
  1. a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.

Origin of rockabilly

1
1955–60, Americanism;rock(-'n'-roll) + -a- connective + (hill)billy

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British Dictionary definitions for rockabilly

rockabilly

/ (ˈrɒkəˌbɪlɪ) /


noun
    • a fast, spare style of White rock music which originated in the mid-1950s in the US South

    • (as modifier): a rockabilly number

Origin of rockabilly

1
C20: from rock (and roll) + (hill) billy

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