crabcore

English

Alternative forms

• crab-core

Etymology

crab +‎ -core

Noun

crabcore (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) The supposed musical genre of metalcore guitarists who adopt a low squatting pose with spread legs.
   • 2009 June 23, John McDonnell, “Scene and heard: Crabcore”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But, unlike all the other genres covered in this column, crabcore isn't defined by sonics or BPMs or lyrical content, or tied to a geographic location. Crabcore is defined by the body contortions of the band's guitarists when they perform.

   • 2009 December 31, Ben Sisario, “When Indie-Rock Genres Outnumber the Bands”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     In photos that seem straight out of an American Apparel billboard, a young woman poses in the T-shirt, which asks, “What kind of music do u listen 2?” and offers, in a matrix of small type, more than 200 underground musical styles, both real (shoegaze, crab-core) and fake (Sufjan-house, crab-gaze).