doo-wop

[ doo-wop ]

nounPopular Music.
  1. 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

1
Representing the chanted syllables

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doo-wop

/ (ˈduːˌwɒp) /


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

Origin of doo-wop

1
C20: of imitative origin

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