beatbox

Definition

A type of electronic percussion device.

Etymology

From beat + box.

Example Sentences

• "Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York."
• "But by 1980 Fenley had collaborated with Mark Freedman on the high-energy, repetitive sound score for Energizer by manipulating a beatbox, the omnipresent instrument of late disco music."
• "Hip-hop took the language and made it graffiti—it was music video on a wall with a beatbox blowing its subwoofers next to it."