Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

car crash song

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English

Syllables: car crash -song
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A genre of music, popular in the mid-20th century and typically in pop rock style, about the tragic death of a teenage lover in a car crash.

Example Sentences

"They now have had five top-ten singles in a row, including Dead Man's Curve, the first car crash song, and the first comic car song, Little Old Lady from Pasadena."
"Dinning was a pioneer in the morbid field of car crash songs. These tunes have morbid lyrics (see above), usually centring around an unrequited love, and in all of them someone dies a horrible death."
"Born with the Interstate Highway System, the car crash song is not just parallel but party to the rise of rock & roll, serving paradoxically as both the end and the guarantor of the freedom that the highway promises."

Inflected Forms

car crash songs (plural) car-crash song (alternative)

Questions

What does car crash song mean?: A genre of music, popular in the mid-20th century and typically in pop rock style, about the tragic death of a teenage lover in a car crash.

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