[soo-koos] 
| a style of central African popular dance music with electric guitars, Caribbean rhythms, and often several vocalists. |
| sou·kous (sōō'kōōs) n. A rumbalike West African dance music originating in Congo (formerly Zaire). [Perhaps (via Lingala) from French secouer, to shake, from Old French secourre, from Latin succutere, to jolt : sub-, sub- + quatere, to shake; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots.] |