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SCAT SINGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
Synonyms:
scat; scat singing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("scat singing" is a kind of...):
singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)
jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)