rock 'n' roll

Questions about rock 'n' roll

What does rock 'n' roll mean?

rock 'n' roll means "a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western".

What is another word for rock 'n' roll?

Close synonyms include rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll, rock and roll, rock, rock music. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rock 'n' roll a common word?

rock 'n' roll is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.