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Sibilance

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality. countable, uncountable

    "The Pet Shop Boys are yet another synth-pop duo, albeit one that is not quite out of the closet. […] In past interviews, however, they [the Pet Shop Boys] have referred to their sound as "specifically gay disco," and their lyrics have that certain queenly something that lead singer Neil Tennant sings with an adorable sibilance."

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