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☆ house music

a kind of synthesized electronic dance music with heavily syncopated rhythms, very low-pitched bass tones, and lyrics in a rap style

Etymology: named after Warehouse, a dance club in Chicago where it originated

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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