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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 balls
  2. Blue Banana
  3. Blue Bay
  4. blue bean
  5. blue beans
  6. blue beat
  7. blue beech
  8. blue beeches
  9. blue bellies
  10. blue belly
  11. blue beret

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