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soca

soca noun: a genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.

Noun

soca (usually uncountable, plural socas)

  1. (usually) A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.
    • He even turned up a few times after that—with mix-tapes of soca music, and handwritten notes, and tears.2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151
    • —Carnival? With soca music?2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 684

Proper noun capitalized: SOCA

SOCA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Forms of soca

pluralsocas

Origin of soca

Blend of soul + calypso.

Words formed from soca

Phrases with soca

Questions about soca

What does soca mean?
Soca means a genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.
What part of speech is soca?
Soca can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of soca?
The plural of soca is socas.

Words near soca in the dictionary

  1. soc
  2. soc and sac
  3. soc sci
  4. Soc'y
  5. soc.
  6. soca
  7. Soca Warriors
  8. socage
  9. socager
  10. socagers
  11. socages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soca (page history and authors); SOCA (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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