zouk

[zook] Origin

zouk

[zook]
noun
a style of dance music that originated in Guadeloupe and Martinique, featuring Caribbean rhythms over a disco beat and played with electric guitars and synthesizers.

Origin:
1985–90; apparently < Lesser Antillean Creole French; said to mean literally “place to dance, party”
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Zouk is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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zouk (zuːk)
 
n
a style of dance music that combines African and Latin American rhythms and uses electronic instruments and modern studio technology
 
[C20: from West Indian Creole zouk to have a good time]

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zouk
Creole Fr. "party," from zouker "engage in unrestrained social activity."
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