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four-to-the-floor

four-to-the-floor is the alternative form of four-on-the-floor.

Meaning of four-on-the-floor

Noun

four-on-the-floor (countable and uncountable, plural four-on-the-floors)

  1. A four-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted beside the driver on the floor of the vehicle.
    1. (metonymically) A vehicle with such a transmission.
  2. (idiomatic) A steady, uniformly accented beat with a 4/4 time signature in which the bass drum is hit on every beat.
    • A four-on-the-floor rhythm:
      \drums<<{\hide\pp\repeat unfold16{hh8

Questions about four-to-the-floor

What is four-to-the-floor the alternative form of?
Four-to-the-floor is the alternative form of four-on-the-floor.

Words near four-to-the-floor in the dictionary

  1. four-strokes
  2. four-stroking
  3. four-thousander
  4. four-thousanders
  5. four-thousandth
  6. four-to-the-floor
  7. four-top
  8. four-tops
  9. four-track
  10. four-tracked
  11. four-tracking

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