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batucada

batucada noun: a style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba.

Noun

batucada (countable and uncountable, plural batucadas)

  1. A style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba.
    • She has not only employed television and radio advertisements in Spanish and English, but has also sent batucada percussion ensembles and mobile loudspeakers playing reggaetón chants into the streets to spread her message.2008 May 25, Larry Rohter, “Puerto Rico Gets Its Moment in the Sun (the Political One) as Primary Nears”, in New York Times
  2. A musical piece composed in this style.

Forms of batucada

pluralbatucadas

Origin of batucada

Borrowed from Portuguese batucada.

Questions about batucada

What does batucada mean?
Batucada means a style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba.
What part of speech is batucada?
Batucada is a noun.
What is the plural of batucada?
The plural of batucada is batucadas.

Words near batucada in the dictionary

  1. battymen
  2. Battys
  3. batu
  4. Batu Arang
  5. Batuan
  6. batucada
  7. batucadas
  8. Batudaka
  9. Batuhan
  10. Batum
  11. Batuman

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