glamcore

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noun

A style of glamorous rock music; glam rock.

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Meanings

nounglamcore (uncountable)
  1. informaluncountableA style of glamorous rock music; glam rock.

    […] We like fashion because it's nonsense, but done with a flair that's missing in the rock world.' This attitude and regard for sartorial elegance led some critics to dismiss the Urge's glamcore sound as throwaway.

    2001, Everett True, Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties, page 180
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    In the studio with screeching glamcore act the Rapture, the DFA shreds the band's tracks and reconstructs them from the ground up. The Rapture single "House of Jealous Lovers" began as a generally unassuming garage-rock tune.

    2002, SPIN, volume 18, number 7, page 86

Origin

From glam + -core.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

macrogel
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APA

glamcore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glamcore

MLA

“glamcore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glamcore. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glamcore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glamcore.

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