reggae
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of reggae
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Rastafari, uncountable)A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is heavily associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line and percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat, often with close vocal harmonies.
“Near-synonym: (earlier) bluebeat”
“I want to do the reggay with you / Come onto me, do the dance”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag; originally used in the 1960s to describe a Jamaican dance. Compare ragtime. Broader musical sense popularized by the 1968 Maytals song “Do the Reggay”.
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