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megapop en · NOUN

Etymology

From mega- + pop.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) Highly successful mainstream pop music.
    • Word that the Icelandic iconoclast had retwiddled the results of her in-studio tryst with Mr. Mosely dashed any hopes that she'd abandon herself to horny megapop escapism. 2007, SPIN, volume 23, number 6, page 90:
    • The last remaining bankable megapop titan hanging out with an Internet-fueled hip-hop star — what a world! 2015 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles”, in New York Times:

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