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Meaning of brostep | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.

uncountable

Examples

“In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity.”
“By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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