doo-wop: Meaning and Definition of

doo-wop

Pronunciation: (d'wop"), [key]
— n. Popular Music.
  1. 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.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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