to freestyle
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4.1
- verb
- /ˈfriːstaɪl/
- Informal
- In the recording studio, the artist often likes to freestyle his lyrics as inspiration strikes.
- gonna freestyle
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Watch on YouTubeIt's kind of like a rap where they'll freestyle stuff from the room.
- It's kind of like a rap where they'll freestyle stuff from the room.
- Just kind of freestyling and kind of moonwalking and, you know, going through that.
- I haven't freestyle in so long and usually when I freestyle it's on wild and out so I have help OK?
- And when that happens, we're just freestyling as a species again.
- Hello, right, OK, but he like he do he don't take it serious, you know I'm saying like he's nice and he freestyle.
- Like just sitting there just freestyling and people would open up the the cooler and then it would just be like miracle, spiritual miracle.
- It's and did you freestyle it?
Examples
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I could try and freestyle something while you're on the phone.
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I can freestyle all right.
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OK, We'll freestyle and you say one line.
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I write and then going to studio and then freestyle the rest of the song.
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Does she always have to be in a car seat, or can she just, like, freestyle it?
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So I jump in the booth and I freestyle and I come out.
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It is so amazing how you can freestyle like that.
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They would come over, I'd freestyle, and they'd be into it.
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And as I grew older, I developed this kind of taste for being off the cuff, freestyling more, having fun with it, putting less thought into it.
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During the talent show, she decided to freestyle her dance routine without any rehearsal.
Synonyms
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6.1
Do something without planning or preparation and improvise
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9.9
To make something up during a performance when not ready
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6.3
To speak or play music by making it up as you go
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6.2
To perform without a script, making scenes or music on the spot
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6.8
To say or act without preparation
How Improvised
Surface Forms
Etymology
Freestyle as a verb comes from free ('without a plan') and style ('way of doing something'). To freestlye is to perform or speak without preparation, making things up as you go.