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new wave

adj, noun — 5 senses

new wave

adjalso spelled New Wave, new-wave
1

Representing the latest and most advanced style.

  • That girl is pretty wild now / The girl's a super freak / The kind of girl you read about / In new wave magazines1981 August 23, Rick James, Alonzo Miller, “Super Freak” (track 5), in Street Songs, performed by Rick James:

new wave

noun
1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music An alternative and broad pop and rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s, incorporating punk sensibilities and/or other forms of music, but made with more accessibility.

  • New York to east California / There's a new wave coming, I warn ya1981, “Kids in America”, performed by Kim Wilde:
Derived terms
new-wave, new waver, new-wavish, no wave

New Wave

noun

Etymology Calque of French Nouvelle Vague.

1

Any of several movements in music and film which are or were considered cutting edge.

new-wave

adj
1

Of or pertaining to the New Wave

2

Innovative and ground-breaking

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for new wave, New Wave and new-wave.