brostep
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity."
- "By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]"