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单词 beat-box
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beat-boxn.adj.

/ˈbiːtbɒks/
Forms: Also without hyphen and as one word.
Etymology: < beat n.1 + box n.2
slang (originally U.S.).
1.
a. An electronic drum machine.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > electronic > electronic effects and devices
tremolo1959
trem arm1961
tremolo arm1961
fuzzbox1964
wah-wah1968
wah-wah pedal1969
voice1970
phasera1974
patch1975
sequencer1975
drum machine1976
flanger1979
pitchbend1982
beat-box1983
MIDI1983
1983 N.Y. Times 7 Dec. c24/1 In several songs, electronic drum machines or ‘beat boxes’ augment or replace the band's drummer-percussionists.
1986 Echoes 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.
1987 Daily Tel. 6 Aug. 10/7 The ‘human beat-box’, Sipho,..makes drum- and percussion-like noises with his lips and throat.
1990 Music Technol. Apr. 5/1 Simon Trask investigates Roland's latest beat box and a selection of sound cards.
b. attributive passing into adj. Esp. of music, rhythms, etc.: of, or characterized by the use of, an electronic drum machine.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop
metal?1518
anthemic1890
Afro-Latin-American1900
sun-kissed1907
heavy1937
Latin American1937
Memphis1938
sun-drenched1943
indie1945
rockish1955
hardcore1957
doo-wop1958
middle of the road1959
Latin1962
straight-ahead1964
easy listening1965
Motown1965
funky1967
post-rock1967
rocky1967
rock-out1968
funkadelic1969
funked out1970
grungy1971
punk1971
grunge1972
Philly1972
dub1973
drum and bass1975
disco funky1976
punkish1976
reggaefied1976
Britpop1977
post-punk1977
anarcho-punk1979
rap1980
trash rock1980
crunchy1981
industrial1981
New Romantic1981
rockist1981
garage1982
hip-hop1982
thrashy1982
urban1982
Gothic1983
hip-hopping1983
beat-box1984
lo-fi1986
technoid1986
hip-house1987
acid house1988
new jack1988
old school1988
techno1988
baggy1990
banging1990
gangsta1990
filthy1991
handbaggy1991
nu skool1991
sampladelic1991
junglist1993
1984 N.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.
1985 N.Y. Times 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.
1987 Q Oct. 112/3 Westworld..are bent on marrying the Eddie Cochran book of guitar licks with beatbox rhythm patterns.
1993 Music Technol. May 90/1 [He] loves to improvise over an often programmed synth bass and beatbox groove.
2. = ghetto blaster n. at ghetto n. and adj. Compounds 2. See also boom box n. at boom n.1 Compounds.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun]
talking machine1844
recorder1867
phonograph1877
dictating machine1878
melograph1879
melodiographa1884
graphophone1886
photographophone1901
auxetophone1904
Dictaphone1906
telediphone1931
transcriber1931
wire recorder1934
sound truck1936
high fidelity1938
Soundscriber1946
player1948
rig1950
transcriptor1957
unit1966
sequencer1975
boom box1981
ghetto blaster1983
beat-box1985
1985 Washington 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.
1986 Chicago 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.
1989 Correspondent Mag. 1 Oct. 34/2 If you hear a car with a beatbox booming at night, you know they're out looking for somebody.
1990 P. Lear in Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 25 She hears rock music from a beat box.
1993 W. Gibson Virtual Light 111 Sammy Sal swerved in beside her, bass pumping from his bikes's bone-conduction beatbox.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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