rockband

See also: Rockband and rock band

English

Etymology

rock +‎ band

Noun

rockband (plural rockbands)

1. (geology) A rock formation that encircles a hill or mountain, separating other kinds of terrain that are above and below it.
   • 1998, Climbing, numbers 178-180, page 45:

     His longtime friend and climbing partner, Chuck Maffei was spared from being pulled into the slide when their rope severed on a rockband.

   • 2001, Alan Hobson, Jamie Clarke, The Power of Passion: Achieve Your Own Everests, page 125:

     A 300-foot high rockband of near-vertical climbing stood between us and the summit.

   • 2012, Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country, fourth, →ISBN, page 31:

     But stymied by a rockband, you are forced to traverse left instead, following cairns to gain the fire road between two large cairns.

2. Alternative form of rock band (band that plays rock music).
   • 1974, Paul Golis, A Day in the Life of Jay Peter Sweetly‎^[1], page 12:

     He tried calling again every three minutes until his accountant arrived, but the line was always busy — busy because room-mate John was using the phone to beat the bongo drums to the rhythm of the acid rockband on the stereo.

   • 1979 December 31, New York Magazine‎^[2], page 22:

     Babes in Toyland - Holiday family show based on Victor Herbert's classic, following the adventures of a rockband through Toyland.

   • 2005, Joel Rai, “Interpreter of Maladies”, in India Today International, volume 4, page 159:

     By which measure he should have a library's worth of themes in his mind since his cv also lists his peregrinations as a rockband leader, radio performer, university lecturer ("crushing failure") in Kathmandu and Bangkok, travel agent ("bankrupting defeat"), highway construction worker, tourist guide, columnist and a journalist.

   • 2006, Carola Conle, Teacher's Stories, Teacher's Lives‎^[3], page 204:

     I started the class that day by having them listen to a powerful contemporary song by an Irish rockband.

   • 2012, Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance‎^[4], page 172:

     Since then the scene has quickly developed: New York stars such as Bit Shifter, Nullsleep or the chiptune rockband Anamanaguchi, and also 8 Bit Weapon from California and Sabrepulse from Great Britain, tour extensively and achieve up to three million replays on internet radio Last.fm.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English rock band. Equivalent to rock +‎ band.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔk.bɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: rock‧band

Noun

rockband m (plural rockbands, diminutive rockbandje n)

1. rock band