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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A style of rock music characterized chiefly by performers who wear flamboyant, often androgynous, costumes and makeup.

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  • noun A style of English rock music from the early 1970s, distinguished by the glamorous, glittery costumes of its performers and its bouncy beat and lyrics.

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  • Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a rock music style that developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s which was "performed by singers and musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots."

    June 19, 2008

  • Interesting description in that it says nothing about the music, only about it's performance context.

    That's because the music sucked.

    June 19, 2008

  • Grocer's apostrophe!

    June 19, 2008

  • I thought a grocer's apostrophe was an apostrophe inserted before the 's' of a plural, in which case skipvia's errant apostrophe is non-grocery-related.

    June 19, 2008

  • Not related to groceries, folks. Just another embarrassing mistake.

    June 19, 2008

  • Not to worry, skipvia. Happens to the best of us, despite what some may think.

    June 19, 2008

  • Someday I'm going to start a list: Mistakes I Have Made on Wordie. I could start with Obstinant Buffaloes. Or maybe pimiento load.

    It would be glorious.

    June 19, 2008

  • Skip, you make a mistake every time a comet burns up in the gaseous atmosphere of Uranus.

    June 19, 2008

  • So that's the source of my heartburn, bilby? :-)

    June 19, 2008

  • *guffaws*

    June 19, 2008