leftfield

See also: left field

English

Alternative forms

• left-field

Etymology

left +‎ field

Adjective

leftfield (not comparable)

1. From out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.
   • 2009 February 26, Mikey Cahill, “Rock City”, in Herald Sun‎^[1]:

     Deacon's second album, Bromst, will be an intricate merry-go-round of joyous, leftfield compositions.

   • 2020, Joe Muggs, Brian David Stevens, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture‎^[2], MIT Press, →ISBN:

     A lot of the left-field techno producers in this country were moving towards jungle and breakbeat influences then – so it was almost perverse for you to go towards techno.

Translations

Unconventionel, off-the-wall

• German: abseitig (de), abwegig (de), unkonventionell (de)