What does "beatboxing" mean?

The practice of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop.

Beatboxing

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Noun

1
The practice of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop. uncountable

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of beatbox form-of, gerund, participle, present

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""Oh boy! It sure is a beautiful morning around here! In fact, I can't wait to–huh? What happened?" "What's up, Link?" "Morshu, what is going on?" "Hah, simple. With all the money I made from my successful businesses and my successful beatboxing career, I got rich!" "Wow, so you threw us a party?" "Hah, nope. Security, get those motherfuckers out.""

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hip hop

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