noun Usage: often capitalized N&W Date: 1960 a cinematic movement that is characterized by improvisation, abstraction, and subjective symbolism and that often makes use of experimental photographic techniques, a new movement in a particular field, popular music less raw than punk rock and typically including unconventional melodies, exaggerated beats, and quirky lyrics, dernier cri , new-wave adjective ~r noun
NEW WAVE
Meaning of NEW WAVE in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012