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new wave en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Representing the latest and most advanced style.
    • That girl is pretty wild now / The girl's a super freak / The kind of girl you read about / In new wave magazines 1981 August 14, Rick James, Alonzo Miller, “Super Freak” (track 5), in Street Songs, performed by Rick James:

Forms

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most new wave Degree=Sup lexicographic
more new wave Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

trendy · faddish

new wave en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An alternative and broad pop and rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s, incorporating punk sensibilities and/or other forms of music, but made with more accessibility.
    • New York to east California / There's a new wave coming, I warn ya 1981, “Kids in America”, performed by Kim Wilde:

Deriveds

no wave · new-wave · new-wavish · new waver