Grunge

/ɡɹʌnd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

(informal) Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean.
2. (informal) The state of being filthy; grubbiness.
3. (music) A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s, which melds punk and metal.

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The cinema floor was covered in grunge deposited by the crowds.

Chad used to work as a coal miner, but couldn't handle the constant grunge.

Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.

Grunge was the de facto soundtrack of the early nineties. It’s also sometimes criticized for its sonic limitations—most groups played the same way, at the same speed and with the same worldview, usually mining the same handful of influences. It was, by design, a derivative musical form. But it did introduce at least one new idea to mainstream rock: a collective sense of self-aware skepticism.

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