rockabilly

English

Etymology

Blend of rock + hillbilly

Pronunciation

Noun

rockabilly (countable and uncountable, plural rockabillies or rockabillys)

  1. (uncountable, music) A genre of music originating from the South (United States) and mixing elements of rock, blues, country, hillbilly boogie and bluegrass music.
  2. (countable) A member of the subculture associated with rockabilly music.

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rockabilly.

Noun

rockabilly m (plural rockabillys)

  1. rockabilly

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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