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grunge

adjective as in dirt; rock music style of the early 1990s

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Depending on how you style it, there can be a grunge influence or a pop-punk influence.

It was an era, the film contends, that was rampant with anger and sexist objectification, having already replaced the progressive spirit of the early-’90s Grunge moment with a general neanderthal crudeness.

You take all of that and you then move it into Seattle in the ’90s, which was just before the grunge explosion hits.

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If you’re getting the grunge out of your grout or removing it from the narrow space around faucets, you’ll want a small brush specifically designed for tile and grout cleaning.

Grunge makes sense if you're a sad, self-righteous teenager.

Seriously—go raid your dusty CaseLogic archives and listen to a bunch of early, non-Nirvana grunge CDs sometime.

It is a gray, almost grunge-like wedding dress by the designer Gareth Pugh, which he made for his friend Katie Shillingford.

The fascinating tragedy of Flappy Bird might go down in history as a defining “grunge moment” for videogames.

Before Dookie, guitar rock meant grunge: heavy, monotonic, humorless, and bleak.

I paid Grunge the grocer nineteen dollars on't; for he knows I'm an honest man, and trusted me.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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