prog rock

noun

Clipped compound of progressive rock.

Meanings

nounprog rock (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentClipped compound of progressive rock.

    Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: […]

    2016 July 7, Alexis Petridis, “Roísín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto review – still too strange for the bigtime”, in The Guardian

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