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noun
A unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: fashion, lifestyle
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noun
Any style that is mainstream or unremarkable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, broadly, uncountable
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History
From norm(al) (“according to norms or rules or to a regular pattern”) + -core (suffix denoting genres of music and subcultures (often specialized and underground)), coined by the cartoonist Ryan Estrada in a guest comic strip for the webcomic Templar, Arizona on 17 September 2008: see the quotation. It was popularized in a stylized, tongue-in-cheek trend report produced by the collective K-HOLE in 2013.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
