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beat-box, n. (a.) slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈbiːtbɒks|
Also without hyphen and as one word.
[f. beat n.1 + box n.2]
1. a. An electronic drum machine.
1983N.Y. Times 7 Dec. c24/1 In several songs, electronic drum machines or ‘beat boxes’ augment or replace the band's drummer-percussionists. 1986Echoes 27 Sept. 14/2 Raw, basic beatbox, heavy and hard raps, and a streetwise manner were carried off in such..style that the world just fell for it. 1987Daily Tel. 6 Aug. 10/7 The ‘human beat-box’, Sipho,..makes drum- and percussion-like noises with his lips and throat. 1990Music Technol. Apr. 5/1 Simon Trask investigates Roland's latest beat box and a selection of sound cards.
b. attrib. passing into adj. Esp. of music, rhythms, etc.: of, or characterized by the use of, an electronic drum machine.
1984N.Y. Times 3 Aug. c5/5 The team performed them [sc. songs] in elaborate arrangements that interspersed seamless pop harmonies with the beat box rhythmic devices of contemporary dance music. 1985Ibid. 9 Jan. c14/5 The sparse beat-box music and intensely engaging call-and-response served up by today's leading rap group, Run-D.M.C. 1987Q Oct. 112/3 Westworld..are bent on marrying the Eddie Cochran book of guitar licks with beatbox rhythm patterns. 1993Music Technol. May 90/1 [He] loves to improvise over an often programmed synth bass and beatbox groove.
2. = ghetto blaster s.v. ghetto n. 3 b. See also boom box s.v. boom n.1 2.
1985Washington Post 19 Mar. c1/1 Booming out of beat boxes on the street and bounced to in aerobics classes, the ‘Big’ beat sounds like the next equal-play anthem for American women. 1986Chicago Tribune 16 May vii. 76/5 There are..hundreds of videos that are traveling ground that has been gone over before. If I see one more woman in a negligee dancing to a beat box, I'm gonna throw up. 1989Correspondent Mag. 1 Oct. 34/2 If you hear a car with a beatbox booming at night, you know they're out looking for somebody. 1990P. Lear in Quarterly Summer 25 She hears rock music from a beat box. 1993W. Gibson Virtual Light 111 Sammy Sal swerved in beside her, bass pumping from his bikes's bone-conduction beatbox. |