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leftfield

adj

Etymology

From left + field.

  1. derived from *pleh₂-✻ — “field, plain”
  2. inherited from *felþuz✻ — “field”
  3. inherited from *felþu✻
  4. inherited from feld
  5. inherited from feeld
  6. compounded as leftfield — “left + field”

Definitions

  1. From out of left field

    From out of left field; off-the-wall; unconventional.

    • Deacon's second album, Bromst, will be an intricate merry-go-round of joyous, leftfield compositions.
    • A lot of the left-field techno producers in this country were moving towards jungle and breakbeat influences then – so it was almost perverse for you to go towards techno.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for leftfield. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA