Meaning of beatbox | Babel Free
/ˈbiːt.bɑks/Definitions
A type of electronic percussion device.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.