Meaning of crabcore | Babel Free

Definitions

The supposed musical genre of metalcore (especially electronicore) guitarists who adopt a low squatting pose with spread legs.

Internet, humorous, uncountable

Examples

“But, unlike all the other genres covered in this column, crabcore isn't defined by sonics or BPMs or lyrical content, or tied to a geographic location. Crabcore is defined by the body contortions of the band's guitarists when they perform.”

“In photos that seem straight out of an American Apparel billboard, a young woman poses in the T-shirt, which asks, “What kind of music do u listen 2?” and offers, in a matrix of small type, more than 200 underground musical styles, both real (shoegaze, crab-core) and fake (Sufjan-house, crab-gaze).”

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