british invasion
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative letter-case form of British Invasion.
name
The rise in British music bands' popularity in the United States in the 1960s.
Example Sentences
- "So in a stealth, surreptitious move of intrigue, he had named us the Golliwogs. “We're trying to have you guys be like the British Invasion here. So we wanted to give you a hip-sounding name. Mod. It’s mod.”"
- "Kenner had passed the song on to Fats Domino; Rufus Thomas had picked it up for his Stax LP Walking the Dog; along the way, it had been lyrically updated and adopted as an easy-to-play floor-filler and crowd-pleaser by seemingly every white garage band that had popped up across the United States in the wake of the British invasion."
Inflected Forms
the British invasion (canonical)
Phrases
Second British Invasion
Frequently Paired Words
Second British Invasion