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grunge
noun- unpleasant dirt or filth US, 1965
- I blew tons of grunge from my nose, with more to follow. — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 48, 1999
- a rock music genre US
From the previous sense, abstractly applied to the “dirty” guitar sound; it is occasionally recorded from the mid-1960s, but until Nirvana and other Seattle-based US groups came to prominence in the early 1990s “grunge” was not a genre. - What do they sound like? Great! Grunge noise and mystikal studio abstractions[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 102, 1972
- Grunge – America’s answer to Punk Rock – described both a new generation of loud, guitar-orientated rock music and the attitudes of its exponents. — Sarah Callard and Will Hoon, Surfers Soulies Skinheads and Skaters, 1996
- [Nirvana’s] influence didn’t impact straight away, it took a couple of years to filter through, but by 1992 grunge had totally destroyed the LA cock rock scene. — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 227, 1999
- Grunge [...] became the first angry trend in white music for ten years to achieve mass popularity. — Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful, p. 232, 2001
- a style of loose-fitting, layered clothes favoured by fans of the grunge music scene US
- But even the grunge-wear could not dull the brilliant polished-mineral black of his eyes[.] — Francesca Lia Block, I Was a Teenage Fairy, p. 73, 1998
- By ‘92 there were high-fashion grunge catwalks[.] — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 227, 1999
- an obnoxious, graceless person US
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 131, 1968
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