muzak
Speech parts
1. muzak - Noun
2. muzak - Verb
3. Muzak - Proper noun
Meaning
Muzak (uncountable)
(music, trademark) Recorded background music characterized by soft, soothing instrumental sounds which is transmitted by wire, radio, or recorded media (originally on a subscription basis) to doctors' offices, shops, and other business premises. [from 1934]
Synonyms: aural wallpaper, (US) elevator music, (Britain) lift music
(music) Easy listening music, whether played live or recorded, especially if regarded as uninteresting.
Synonyms: aural wallpaper, ear candy
(figuratively) Something (such as speech) regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding.
To provide (premises, etc.) with Muzak.
To adapt or reduce (a piece of music, etc.) to the status of Muzak.
muzak (uncountable)
Alternative letter-case form of Muzak (“easy listening music, especially if regarded as uninteresting; something regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding”)
muzak (third-person singular simple present muzaks, present participle muzaking, simple past and past participle muzaked)
Alternative letter-case form of Muzak
Anagrams
Examples
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.
After all, Bugs Bunny has played him, Muzak musicians arrange him, and Liberace unwittingly maimed him.
Billboards, Muzak, TV programming, and young people's education all trumpet the teachings of great Shia holy men.