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doo-wop

/doo-wop/US // ˈduˌwɒp //UK // (ˈduːˌwɒp) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Popular Music.

    • : a style of small-group vocal harmonizing, commercialized as a type of so-called street singing in the 1950s, in which words and nonsense syllables are chanted in rhythmic harmony to support the stylized melody of the lead singer.

Examples

  • The composite photo whose eyes follow you around the room are less Matthew Lewis or Sheridan Le Fanu than “Scooby-Doo.”

  • That was my first movie, so I was totally green, and he was at the height of his Scooby Doo craziness.

  • Plus, if you have kids, you may recognize her as Velma in the live-action Scooby-Doo movies.

  • I used to sing just to do it, but then Art put together a doo-wop group.

  • The dog might even have been drugged (we might call this the Scooby Doo explanation).

  • "Don't forget to tell him how the wop licked the Jew," broke in the prisoner.

  • "Dere iss doo empty shells und four goot vones," he announced.

  • Don't speck hit is ergwine to do mars Jon no good do, but hit haint ergwine to pizen noboddy ef hit don't doo no good.

  • I spose the papers ud call this an ar-tillery doo-el, remarked Pug, or re-noo-ed ar-tillery activity.

  • It was Trudy Doo's rebel yell and I heard her guitar thrash out some chords, then her drummer playing, then that big deep bass.