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dance-pop

dance-pop is the alternative spelling of dancepop.

Meaning of dancepop

Noun

dancepop (uncountable)

  1. A popular music subgenre that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s, intended for nightclubs and contemporary hit radio.
    • Too many factors to mention contributed to the 1980s’ glory days of dancepop, but one double-edged sword was radio’s fear of hip-hop, […]2012 March 2, Nick Minichino, “A Quick Primer On Freestyle: 1980s Dancepop's Most Underheralded Genre”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2022

Questions about dance-pop

What is dance-pop the alternative spelling of?
Dance-pop is the alternative spelling of dancepop.

Words near dance-pop in the dictionary

  1. dance-hall
  2. dance-halls
  3. dance-happy
  4. dance-off
  5. dance-offs
  6. dance-pop
  7. dance-time
  8. danceability
  9. danceable
  10. danceables
  11. danceaholic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dance-pop (page history and authors); dancepop (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.

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