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rock 'n' roll
noun- a genre of music with a driving rhythm; an umbrella for most simply rhythmic music produced since the 1950s US
The etymology is laden with sexual overtones, thus “My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll”, sung by blues singer Trixie Smith in 1924, and a song entitled “Rock and Roll” is recorded in 1934. It is not until 1954 that the music now recognised as “rock ’n’ roll” is given its identity; coinage is generally credited to US disc jockey Alan Freed. - — Trixie Smith, My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll, 1924
- It’s right rhythmic rock and roll music that provides plenty of inspi-ration in Joe Liggins’ “Sugar Lump.” — Billboard, p. 33, 22nd June 1946
- It was Alan Freed, an American DJ in the fifties [...] who started using the phrase to describe “rhythm and blues” played by white musicians rather than black. Then Bill Haley brought rock ‘n’ roll to the attention of young Britons. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 9, 2001
- a hole UK
Rhyming slang, used practically or figuratively. - — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
- unemployment benefit; any government office from which it is administrated UK
Rhyming slang for THE DOLE- [S]he [Sarah Ferguson]’s given the door. The Royal “E”. Back on the rock-and-roll. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 13, 1994
- I don’t want to wait all my life to get busted like those dickhead cabs parked up right outside the rock an’ roll on the high street. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 85, 1997
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