Word.ws English Dictionary

blue-beat

blue-beat is the alternative form of bluebeat.

Meaning of bluebeat

Noun

bluebeat (uncountable)

  1. Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, precursor of reggae.
    • Reggae music came to the UK shores as bluebeat and later through names like ska and rocksteady.1971 November 13, Billboard, volume 83, number 46, page 34

Questions about blue-beat

What is blue-beat the alternative form of?
Blue-beat is the alternative form of bluebeat.

Words near blue-beat in the dictionary

  1. blue-banded eggflies
  2. blue-banded eggfly
  3. blue-banded sea krait
  4. blue-banded sea kraits
  5. blue-bearded
  6. blue-beat
  7. blue-bellied black snake
  8. blue-bellied black snakes
  9. blue-billed duck
  10. blue-billed ducks
  11. blue-black

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blue-beat (page history and authors); bluebeat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “blue-beat.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/blue-beat. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.