neo-Dada

noun

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: an anti-art movement especially of the late 1950s and the 1960s based on tenets similar to those of Dada but having more interest in the object than Dada claimed to have

broadly : junk art

neo-Dadaism

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noun

neo-Dadaist

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adjective or noun

Word History

Etymology

ne- + Dada

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

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