English Dictionary

rock and roll

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹɒk ən(d) ˈɹəʊl/

名詞

不可算名詞 限定用法 特に コックニー 俗語 アメリカ英語

(music) A 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.

日本語の意味

ロックンロール：1950年代にリズム・アンド・ブルースとカントリーミュージックを融合して生まれた、エレキギターや力強いリズム、若者向けの歌詞が特徴の音楽ジャンル

She grew up listening to rock and roll, which inspired her to learn the electric guitar.

彼女はロックンロールを聴いて育ち、それがエレキギターを学ぶきっかけになった。

意味（1）

(music) A 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.

意味（2）

(dance) A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.

意味（3）

(especially attributive) An 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

意味（4）

(Cockney rhyming slang) Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.

I'm back on rock and roll ― I'm back on the dole.

意味（5）

(military, slang, US) The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.

意味（6）

(film, television) The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.

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'.