a situation when a song that comes to your mind again and again
a song that is stuck in your head that you cannot get rid of – usually a song that it very annoying
a song that has a very catchy tune – it makes people listen to it repeatedly
This new PitBull song is a real earworm. I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since last week.
I have an earworm! That tune from the new car commercial keeps playing in my head.
Isn’t it odd how an earworm is usually a song that you hate? I wouldn’t mind hearing a song that I like the whole day.
The new jingle for our breakfast cereal proves to be an earworm.
I can’t get rid of the earmworm of the song I have heard today morning.
Johnny always gets an earworm – whenever he listen the songs of Pink Floyd.
There is no origin for this idiom
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definition
Common phrase that has a specific meaning.