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say it: RAH-kuh-bil-ee
rockabilly is a noun meaning "a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat". It is pronounced /ˈɹɑkəˌbɪli/ — RAH-kuh-bil-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rockabilly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.