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单词 doo-wop
释义

doo-wop

[ doo-wop ]
/ ˈduˌwɒp /

noun Popular Music.

a style of small-group vocal harmonizing, commercialized as a type of so-called street singing in the 1950s, in which words and nonsense syllables are chanted in rhythmic harmony to support the stylized melody of the lead singer.

Origin of doo-wop

Representing the chanted syllables

Words nearby doo-wop

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Example sentences from the Web for doo-wop

  • I used to sing just to do it, but then Art put together a doo-wop group.

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  • I knew a doo-wop group that sings in the subway and around the city, and I wanted to get them involved.

    Doo-Wop ‘We Can’t Stop’: Behind the Ridiculously Good Miley Cyrus Cover|Kevin Fallon|September 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
  • Amy Winehouse incorporated a lot of Motown and soul and doo-wop into her stuff, an updated version of it.

    Doo-Wop ‘We Can’t Stop’: Behind the Ridiculously Good Miley Cyrus Cover|Kevin Fallon|September 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
  • This kind of situation happened over and over again in the big-band years and later during the doo-wop era.

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British Dictionary definitions for doo-wop

doo-wop
/ (ˈduːˌwɒp) /

noun

rhythm-and-blues harmony vocalizing developed by unaccompanied street-corner groups in the US in the 1950s

Word Origin for doo-wop

C20: of imitative origin
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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