popular beat combo
English
WOTD – 13 February 2022
Etymology
From popular + beat + combo (“small musical group”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɒpjʊlə ˌbiːt ˈkɒmbəʊ/
Audio (Berkshire, UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɑpjəlɚ ˌbit ˈkɑmboʊ/, /ˈpɑ-/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: pop‧ul‧ar beat com‧bo
Noun
popular beat combo (plural popular beat combos)
- (Britain, music, humorous or ironic) A pop group. [from 1990s]
- 1999 June 12, Lawrence Donegan, Maybe It Should Have Been a Three Iron: My Year as Caddie for the World's 438th Best Golfer, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 199:
- I thought it was a bit odd that the world's most popular beat combo should choose a golf tournament at Waldviertel for their reunion concert.
- 2006 October 5, John K. V. Eunson, Crabbit Old Buggers!, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN:
- An early indication of crabbitness can be identified in teenage years by an inability to move either hips or shoulders no matter what popular beat combo are playing.
- 2020 April 10, Brian Taylor, “Coronavirus: 'A question of balance' over lockdown exit”, in BBC News:
- When I was younger, I was quite an adherent of the popular beat combo known as The Moody Blues.
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Usage notes
The term humorously suggests that the speaker, often an older person, is unfamiliar with modern popular music.[1]
Translations
pop group — see pop group
References
- “popular beat combo, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2019; “popular beat combo, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
popular beat combo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia