Beatbox
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbiːt.bɑks/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Beatbox is a noun meaning (music) A type of electronic percussion device.
Meaning
(music) A type of electronic percussion device.
More Meanings
- (music) To use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats and rhythms for music.
Example Sentences
Hip-hop took the language and made it graffiti—it was music video on a wall with a beatbox blowing its subwoofers next to it.
Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York.
Turull, group elder, and Wright, the youngest, play off each other extraordinarily well, be it on cajon or when the latter jumps up to beatbox against Marina’s lyrical sidesteps.
But by 1980 Fenley had collaborated with Mark Freedman on the high-energy, repetitive sound score for Energizer by manipulating a beatbox, the omnipresent instrument of late disco music.
Word Forms
- beatboxes
- beatboxing
- beatboxed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stompbox, beater, saltbox, squeezebox, bodypack, drum.
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