zouk
/zuːk
/noun [mass noun]
An exuberant style of popular music combining Caribbean and Western elements and having a fast heavy beat.Over three days and nights, popular Creole musical forms such as cadence-lypso, compass, zouk, soukous, and bouyon ring out alongside Creole-influenced reggae and soca....
- For openers, there was the French ensemble Les Alizes, playing zouk on steel.
- Hints of zouk, samba and electroclash rear their groovy heads through a parade of infectious Afro-housers.
Origin
1970s: Guadeloupian Creole, literally 'to party'.
Rhymes
- ill-assorted
- ill at ease
- illation
- illative
- illatively
- Illawarra
- I'll be bound
- ill-behaved
- (I'll) be seeing you
- ill-bred
- ill breeding
- ill-chosen
- ill-concealed
- ill-conceived
- ill-considered
- ill-defined
- ill-deserved
- ill-disciplined
- Antarctic Ocean
- Antarctic Peninsula
- Antarctic petrel
- Antarctic Pole
- Antarctic Sea
- Antarctic toothfish
- Antarctic Treaty