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Through. An abbreviation mostly used in the fast food industry, as in Drive Thru. Also used in traffic signs ("Thru Traffic Keep Left"; i.e., traffic that is continuing through an interchange rather than exiting should keep to the left) and occasionally road names ("New York State Thruway") and sometimes in newspaper headlines.
better off than 'working class', but not rich, i.e., a narrower term than in the U.S. and often negative ordinary; not rich although not destitute, generally a positive term midway (adv.) in the centre of a line or period (n.) part of a fair in which there are games, rides, etc. [5] military: relating specifically to the British Army (dated)
term of endearment, often used for children (slang) a bug (insect) buggy 2-wheeled horse-drawn lightweight carriage baby transport vehicle also called (UK) pushchair (US: stroller) any of various light cart or cars ("a golf buggy") (slang) an automobile (orig. US) see baby transport for details see also dune buggy
one thousand million, or 1,000,000,000 (US: billion or 1,000,000,000) [91] Has for a long time been superseded by the short scale usage of billion (1,000,000,000) and was never as commonly used in the UK as it still is in mainland Europe (where the long scale is still used); when the long scale was used in Britain, "a thousand million" was more ...
A duple-pulse rhythmic cell in Cuban and other Latin American music trill A rapid, usually unmeasured alternation between two harmonically adjacent notes (e.g. an interval of a semitone or a whole tone). A similar alternation using a wider interval is called a tremolo. triplet (shown with a horizontal bracket and a '3')
The Agora also had a downstairs club called The Mistake and later named Pop Shop, where many bands from folk to metal performed. The club hosted music industry private parties and was visited by legends, such as The Velvet Underground’s Nico, who played there in 1972. Backstage at the Agora, production personnel grew in experience and knowledge.
Formed out of the male-dominated music scenes of jam music (in the case of Bonnaroo), late-’90s indie rock (Coachella), and early ’90s alternative and grunge (Lollapalooza), these festivals tend to celebrate diversity while dismissing the most popular pop acts — the ones who tend to dominate the charts and who tend so often to be female ...
The Americana Music Association, a not-for-profit trade organization advocating for American Roots Music around the world, was formed in 1999. [26] It is a network for Americana artists, radio stations, record labels, publishers, and others with the goal of developing an infrastructure that will boost visibility and economic viability.