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Meaning of beatbox | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈbiːt.bɑks/

Definitions

A type of electronic percussion device.

Equivalents

Deutsch Beatbox beatboxen
Français beatbox
한국어 비트박스
Nederlands beatbox beatboxen
Português beatbox

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.

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