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breakbeat

noun

Etymology

From break + beat.

  1. derived from *bautaną✻ — “to push, strike”
  2. derived from *bautan✻
  3. derived from bēatan — “to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”
  4. inherited from beten
  5. compounded as breakbeat — “break + beat”

Definitions

  1. A form of syncopated rhythm prominent in much African music.

    • A cornucopia of hyped-up breakbeats, keyboard squiggles, surf grooves, dancehall stylee, dumb loops and much atonal shouting along, Far In dares you not to smile.

  2. A genre of electronic dance music based on such syncopated rhythms.

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Derived

breakbeaty

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for breakbeat. 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