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rockabilly (n.)

1956, from noun sense of rock (n.2) in the music sense + second element abstracted from hillbilly music. One of the first uses is in a Billboard magazine item about Johnny Burnette's "Lonesome Train."

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Definitions of rockabilly from WordNet

rockabilly (n.)
a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat;
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