doof
/duːf/noun Australian
1 [mass noun] Electronic music with a repetitive, heavy bass beat: they join in the workshops, eat felafel, and dance to doof...
- Special guest on the night is a local band who will play a set of high-energy dance and doof grooves to suit the mood.
- Because we're all here for the same reason, doof, doof, dance, dance, dance your heart out.
- Our doof is all done with traditional instruments like guitar, bass, and drums.
1.1 [count noun] A large party or festival with dancing to electronic music: the park provides the perfect venue for a doof [as modifier]: they were no strangers to the doof scene...
- A bush doof music festival for Central Oz—google it, baby!
- Access to the beach was closed due to damage incurred from doof parties staged there over the New Year period.
- A lot of the people who go to doof parties would claim to be environmentally aware.
Origin
1990s: an onomatopoeic coinage suggestive of the repetitive, heavy bass beat of electronic music.
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