Etymology

turbo-folk

Today it means: A music genre combining Serbian folk music with more modern pop music elements. Full definition →

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The story

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian, turbo- + folk, coined by Rambo Amadeus in 1988.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.