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- uncountableentertainmentA harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.
By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]
2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers1 more example
In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity.
2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, new and revised edition, Faber & Faber, →ISBN
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brostep. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brostep
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