rockband

plural rockbands

1. geographyA rock formation that encircles a hill or mountain, separating other kinds of terrain that are above and below it.

   A 300-foot high rockband of near-vertical climbing stood between us and the summit.

   2001, Alan Hobson, Jamie Clarke, The Power of Passion: Achieve Your Own Everests, page 125

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   His longtime friend and climbing partner, Chuck Maffei was spared from being pulled into the slide when their rope severed on a rockband.

   1998, Climbing, numbers 178-180, page 45

   But stymied by a rockband, you are forced to traverse left instead, following cairns to gain the fire road between two large cairns.

   2012, Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country, fourth, →ISBN, page 31

2. alternativeAlternative form of rock band (band that plays rock music).

   I started the class that day by having them listen to a powerful contemporary song by an Irish rockband.

   2006, Carola Conle, Teacher's Stories, Teacher's Lives, page 204

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   He tried calling again every three minutes until his accountant arrived, but the line was always busy — busy because room-mate John was using the phone to beat the bongo drums to the rhythm of the acid rockband on the stereo.

   1974, Paul Golis, A Day in the Life of Jay Peter Sweetly, page 12

   Babes in Toyland - Holiday family show based on Victor Herbert's classic, following the adventures of a rockband through Toyland.

   1979 December 31, New York Magazine, page 22

   By which measure he should have a library's worth of themes in his mind since his cv also lists his peregrinations as a rockband leader, radio performer, university lecturer ("crushing failure") in Kathmandu and Bangkok, travel agent ("bankrupting defeat"), highway construction worker, tourist guide, columnist and a journalist.

   2005, Joel Rai, “Interpreter of Maladies”, in India Today International, volume 4, page 159

   Since then the scene has quickly developed: New York stars such as Bit Shifter, Nullsleep or the chiptune rockband Anamanaguchi, and also 8 Bit Weapon from California and Sabrepulse from Great Britain, tour extensively and achieve up to three million replays on internet radio Last.fm.

   2012, Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, page 172