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doowop

doowop is the alternative form of doo-wop.

Meaning of doo-wop

Noun

doo-wop (uncountable)

  1. A style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that was mostly popular within Black Americans of African descent in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s that is best characterized by nonsensical backing vocals with very little to no instrumentation.
    • The R&B groups possessed a grittiness and soulful earnestness that was soon to be emulated by street-corner doo-wop groups, some of whom would achieve commercial success with instrumentally arranged hit records.2016, Lawrence Pitilli, Doo-Wop Acappella, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 27

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Forms of doowop

third-person singular presentdoowops
present participledoowopping
past participledoowopped
pastdoowopped

Questions about doowop

What is doowop the alternative form of?
Doowop is the alternative form of doo-wop.

Words near doowop in the dictionary

  1. doovalacky
  2. doover
  3. dooverlackies
  4. dooverlacky
  5. doovers
  6. doowop
  7. doowopped
  8. doowopping
  9. doowops
  10. doozer
  11. doozers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doowop (page history and authors); doo-wop (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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