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🎤 Vocal rhythm art 🎤 To make mouth beats 🧑‍🎤 A vocal drummer
to beatbox

to beatbox

2 7.1
To make drum and rhythm sounds using only the mouth and voice
  • verb
  • /ˈbiːtbɑːks/
: hacer beatbox
  • I remember Coach Rosallis used to let you flow over the intercom in gym class, back when we used to beatbox like the Fat Boys, remember that?

We sang hold on buying Vogue Tasha, she beatboxed while we sang song instead of playing the track.

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Examples

  • All right, so you want to beatbox a song and have us guess what song?

  • There was a point in my life I tried so hard to beatbox and did it work?

  • You can beatbox and turn each part of the audio into a new MIDI instrument, for example, and then program those.

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  • Can you beatbox and show us how you create those cool rhythms?

  • He loves to beatbox during his performances to add a unique touch to the music.

  • At the party, she decided to beatbox a popular hip-hop song that everyone recognized.

How Complex

to beatbox
2 7.1
to imitate
141 2.7

Surface Forms

beatbox infinitive
beatboxed past
beatboxed past participle
beatboxing present participle
beatboxes third person singular

Etymology

The verb beatbox comes from beat ('rhythm') and box ('machine'), because people imitate the sound of drum machines with their mouths. So to beatbox is to make rhythm and percussion sounds with your voice.