[doo-wop] 
| 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. |
| doo-wop or doo·wop (dōō'wŏp') n. A style of rhythm and blues popularized in the 1950s and characterized by words and nonsense syllables sung in harmony by small groups against a stylized rhythmic melody. [Imitative of the vocals in such music.] doo'-wop' adj. |