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1. uncountableentertainmentA genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
2. uncountabledanceA style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
3. attributiveespeciallyuncountableAn intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, characterized by unbridled enthusiasm, hedonism, and cynical regard for authoritarian bodies.

   rock and roll lifestyle

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   I didn’t want to just look cool, or just look rock and roll; I wanted to look more girl. Looking back, I was trying to make more of a definite statement about what my look was and how I wanted to present myself. Tomboy, but more ambiguous than tomboy, too.

   2015, Kim Gordon, chapter 27, in Carrie Thornton, editor, Girl in a Band, New York: Dey st., →ISBN, page 161

4. CockneyslanguncountableDole, payment by the state to the unemployed.

   I'm back on rock and roll

   I'm back on the dole.

5. USslanguncountablegovernmentThe full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
6. uncountablebroadcastingThe ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.

   An alternative method is the use of ADR (automated dialogue replacement), which consists basically of a high speed rock and roll dubbing system and a programmable locating device.

   2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book, pages 38–7

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   The dubbing theatre is a viewing theatre equipped for running the picture with a great many tracks interlocked to run synchronously. Once laced up, they can be run forwards or backwards remaining in synch; when it was first introduced this system was given the name 'rock and roll'.

   2004, Robert Angell, Getting Into Films & Television, page 56

   It is very rare that an entire commentary is recorded in one take. If you need to stop for some reason — the performance isn't quite right, there's a rustle of papers, etc — you can always go back on the recording and pick it up from the point at which it went wrong. This is known as rock and roll.

   2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 196

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1. datedeuphemisticslangAfrican-American VernacularTo have sex.

   Synonyms: bang, do it, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple

2. To play rock and roll music.

   Synonyms: rock

3. To start, commence, begin, get moving; move along with a rocking, rolling motion.

   Does everyone know what car they're going in? Then let's rock and roll!

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   He puts the brakes on here and there down the next four miles of curves, but then opens her out so that she rocks and rolls through Totnes at a mile a minute for a flying start on the worst bank of the whole trip, five steep miles up to Rattery Box and four not so steep past Brent up to Wrangaton.

   1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 90

   Now we are ready to rock and roll.

   2017, Ben J. Heijdra, Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, page 484

   Synonyms: initiate, open, begin, commence, go, inchoate, initiate, open