funk
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- noun
- /fʌŋk/
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funk
- There's a cacophony of seventies funk and football filling the room.
- Brazilian funk
- a funk dance
- funk culture
Larry Carlson solos, anything that was out, rock, jazz, funk, Blues.
- Larry Carlson solos, anything that was out, rock, jazz, funk, Blues.
- Hey, shining through the city with a little funk and soul.
- He loved funk, He wanted me to be versatile.
- Cleo soul, Stevie Wonder, a lot of oldies, a lot of funk.
- Well, it's not dark, it's just fun as in hip hop and funk.
- To give you an example, my band is a psychedelic gospel funk group.
- One of them was in high school I played drums in a rock, ska funk band.
- They do mostly like funk disco sounding stuff and the Driver era.
- Like yes Jared, you should not be paid for faking the funk.
- Plus, you know, Renegades are funk, Afrido, Bamba.
Examples
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A Soul/Funk song starts up on the radio that catches her attention.
Fiction book (2001) -
We had a song together on her album some years ago, a funk song in her album.
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Hey, shining through the city with a little funk and soul.
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It's a fusion of jazz and funk.
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The Diva switches from classical music to funk, picking up the tempo.
Fiction book (1997) -
These two blue-eyed funk machines are going to find themselves popping and locking their way to the championship in Montreal.
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The band played an upbeat funk song that got everyone dancing.
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Her favorite type of music is funk, especially songs with a strong bass line.
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Many great musicians, like James Brown, have contributed to the funk genre.
Idioms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Funk once meant a strong, often bad 'smell', and musicians began to call a raw, sweaty sound funky because it felt earthy and physical. So funk music keeps that idea: a deep, rhythmic groove that feels alive and close to the body.