yarl

plural yarls

1. A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.

   One of my college kids informed me that the latest acoustic grinder hunk had covered it for a soundtrack — probably with that grungy yarl that everybody ripped off from Eddie Vedder.

   2008, Michael J. Vaughn, Outro, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 10

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   So pontificating on how Weathered's earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo yarl amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.

   2002 January 9, Patrick Berkery, “Record Review - 1 January 09 2002”, in Creative Loafing, Atlanta

present singular third person yarls · participle present yarling · participle past yarled · past yarled

1. To sing in this manner.

   On "All Secrets Known," he yarls "fingers" into "fingerrrrrrrraaaaaaughhhhhzzzzzzz."

   2009 October 21, Andrew Matson, “Is there any reason to listen to the new Alice in Chains album, "Black Gives Way to Blue"?”, in The Seattle Times

plural Yarls

1. A surname