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freakbeat en · NOUN

Etymology

From freak + beat, coined by English music journalist Philip Lloyd-Smee.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A genre of hard-driving British rock music, often from the 1960s and associated with a mod following.
    • The couple had already put in the hard yards: Fred started out in '60s freakbeat combos The Weeds and Lollipop Shoppe, with Toody joining him in early '80s punk trio The Rats. 2021 December, Jon Dale, “Dead Moon fever!”, in Uncut, →ISSN, page 8: