Etymology

daycore

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Today it means: A plunderphonic style of music in which a song is slowed down and lowered in pitch. Full definition →

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The story

From day + -core, coined by analogy with nightcore (“a style of music based on taking an original track and speeding it up and increasing its pitch”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.