rockistn.adj.
/ˈrɒkɪst/, U.S. /ˈrɑkəst/ A. n.
A performer of conventional or orthodox rock music; (also) a person who considers rock to be superior to other types of popular music. Cf. rockism n.2 1.
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hard rocker1942
bebopper1946
skiffler1948
bopper1951
rock 'n' roller1955
rockabilly1956
rock star1957
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rock idol1958
rockster1960
funkster1963
country rocker1964
punk rocker1972
punk1976
punkster1976
cock-rocker1977
MC1979
rapper1979
thrasher1979
New Romantic1980
prog rocker1980
neo-punk1981
pomp rocker1981
rapster1981
rockist1981
hip-hopper1982
scratcher1982
skanker1983
pop tart1984
trash rocker1984
techno-head1985
Goth1986
Britpopper1989
gangsta1989
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gangsta rapper1990
house-head1990
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trip-hopper1993
1981 Sounds 21 Mar. 19/1 Death to rockists, long live funnists! Soft Cell have revamped their cabaret and will thrusting it upon a London audience very soon.
1982 New Musical Express 20 Feb. 26/2 I'm no romantic rockist, but I seriously think Heaven Up Here is one of the most superior articulations of ‘rock’ form in living memory.
1990 Boston Globe (Nexis) 9 Jan. (Arts & Film section) 56 When they started playing those stadiums, becoming total rockists, the whole self-image of themselves collapsed.
1995 Melody Maker 25 Mar. 32/1 Stone Roses and Primal Scream are..retreating from rave in search of the rockist's grail of ‘feel’, jamming till the cows come home.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 31 Oct. ii. 1/3 A rockist is someone who reduces rock 'n' roll to a caricature, then uses that caricature as a weapon.
B. adj.
Characteristic of conventional or orthodox rock music; (also) characterized by a belief in the superiority of rock over other types of popular music.
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metal?1518
anthemic1890
Afro-Latin-American1900
sun-kissed1907
heavy1937
Latin American1937
Memphis1938
sun-drenched1943
indie1945
rockish1955
hardcore1957
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rap1980
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crunchy1981
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New Romantic1981
rockist1981
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Gothic1983
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filthy1991
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junglist1993
1981 New Musical Express 18 Apr. 48/3 It's all very ‘big time’, if you know what I mean. Thoroughly rockist, I'd imagine.
1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic iv. 95 The two black personality cults which the rock audience did accept were those of Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley, both of whom amply met the rigorous rockist criteria of the post-hippie consensus.
1993 Pop. Music 12 299 It has been suggested that, from A and R people to MDs, key personnel..were too immersed in reading the rockist inkies to realise the market potential of dance.
2003 Lima (Ohio) News 23 Feb. d11/1 All the rockist hipsters will be able to happily return to their grumbling.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1981