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leftfield en · ADJ

Etymology

From left + field.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) From out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.
    • Deacon's second album, Bromst, will be an intricate merry-go-round of joyous, leftfield compositions. 2009 February 26, Mikey Cahill, “Rock City”, in Herald Sun:
    • A lot of the left-field techno producers in this country were moving towards jungle and breakbeat influences then – so it was almost perverse for you to go towards techno. 2020, Joe Muggs, Brian David Stevens, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, MIT Press, →ISBN:

Forms

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Translations (3)

de abwegig (Unconventionel, off-the-wall) · de abseitig (Unconventionel, off-the-wall) · de unkonventionell (Unconventionel, off-the-wall)