"wrock" meaning in English

See wrock in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɹɑk/ [General-American]
Etymology: Blend of wizard + rock Etymology templates: {{blend|en|wizard|rock}} Blend of wizard + rock Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wrock (uncountable)
  1. (fandom slang) A genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series. Wikipedia link: Harry and the Potters Tags: slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Fandom, Harry Potter, Musical genres Synonyms: wizard rock Related terms: filk

Download JSON data for wrock meaning in English (3.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wizard",
        "3": "rock"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of wizard + rock",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of wizard + rock",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "wrock (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fandom",
          "orig": "en:Fandom",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Harry Potter",
          "orig": "en:Harry Potter",
          "parents": [
            "British fiction",
            "Fantasy",
            "Fictional characters",
            "Literature",
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Art",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Musical genres",
          "orig": "en:Musical genres",
          "parents": [
            "Genres",
            "Music",
            "Entertainment",
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Racheline Maltese, The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias & Particularities, Volume 1, Sterling & Ross Publishers, page 175",
          "text": "There are, at present, dozens of these “wizard rock” or “wrock” bands, some of which tour nationally and internationally performing at small clubs, libraries and Harry Potter conferences and other special events.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 July 20, Lev Grossman, “The Boy Who Rocked”, in Time",
          "text": "Not all wrock is punk wrock. There's plenty of stylistic diversity in the scene, which ranges from the electric girl pop of the Parselmouths to the darkly gleaming hip-hop of Swish and Flick.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, page 78",
          "text": "The phenomenon of wrock (wizard rock) within Harry Potter fandom has not yet produced mainstream crossovers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series."
      ],
      "id": "en-wrock-en-noun-ndPknMhm",
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "genre",
          "genre"
        ],
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "fan",
          "fan"
        ],
        [
          "lyric",
          "lyric"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) A genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "filk"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wizard rock"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Harry and the Potters"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɑk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wrock"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wizard",
        "3": "rock"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of wizard + rock",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of wizard + rock",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "wrock (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "filk"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English blends",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English fandom slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Fandom",
        "en:Harry Potter",
        "en:Musical genres"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Racheline Maltese, The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias & Particularities, Volume 1, Sterling & Ross Publishers, page 175",
          "text": "There are, at present, dozens of these “wizard rock” or “wrock” bands, some of which tour nationally and internationally performing at small clubs, libraries and Harry Potter conferences and other special events.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 July 20, Lev Grossman, “The Boy Who Rocked”, in Time",
          "text": "Not all wrock is punk wrock. There's plenty of stylistic diversity in the scene, which ranges from the electric girl pop of the Parselmouths to the darkly gleaming hip-hop of Swish and Flick.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, page 78",
          "text": "The phenomenon of wrock (wizard rock) within Harry Potter fandom has not yet produced mainstream crossovers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "genre",
          "genre"
        ],
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "fan",
          "fan"
        ],
        [
          "lyric",
          "lyric"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) A genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Harry and the Potters"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɑk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wizard rock"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wrock"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.