Meaning of rock and roll | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
   uncountable
2. A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
   uncountable
3. An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, characterized by unbridled enthusiasm, hedonism, and cynical regard for authoritarian bodies.
   attributive, especially, uncountable
4. Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.
   Cockney, slang, uncountable
5. The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
   US, slang, uncountable
6. The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.
   uncountable

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Examples

“rock and roll lifestyle”

“I'm back on rock and roll”

I'm back on the dole.

“The dubbing theatre is a viewing theatre equipped for running the picture with a great many tracks interlocked to run⟳ synchronously. Once laced up, they can be run⟳ forwards or backwards remaining in synch; when it was first introduced this system was given the name⟳ 'rock and roll'.”

“It is very rare that an entire commentary is recorded in one take⟳. If you need⟳ to stop⟳ for some reason⟳ — the performance isn't quite right, there's a rustle of papers, etc — you can always go back on the recording and pick⟳ it up from the point⟳ at which it went wrong. This is known as rock and roll.”

“An alternative method is the use⟳ of ADR (automated dialogue replacement), which consists basically of a high speed⟳ rock and roll dubbing system and a programmable locating device.”

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