Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)A genre of music of the late 2000s, characterized by effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines.

Origin

From chill + -wave. Coined tongue-in-cheek on the blog Hipster Runoff in 2009.

From chill + -wave. Coined tongue-in-cheek on the blog Hipster Runoff in 2009.

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