1. A fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat

Derived forms: rockabillies

Type of: popular music, popular music genre

Encyclopedia: Rockabilly

• short shrift
• short sleep
• short sleeve
• short story
• short subject
• short temper
• short time
• short ton
• short wave
• short whist
• Short's aster
• short-beaked
• short-billed
• short-billed marsh wren
• short-bodied
• short-change
• short-circuit
• short-dated
• short-eared
• short-haired
• short-handed
• short-handled
• short-headed
• short-horned grasshopper
• short-lived