Zouk

//zuk// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A style of dance music originating in the French Antilles, combining Latin American, African and Western disco rhythms; a dance to this music

    "From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Brooklyn’s own ReggaeLution band will perform, and at 9, D.J. Lumumba (a k a Revolution) will preside over an inclusive Caribbean dance party, from bachata to zouk and back again."

Verb
  1. 1
    To dance to zouk music.

Example

More examples

"In black-influenced music genres, I still enjoy zouk and taarab."

Etymology

From French secouer (“to shake up”), via creole.

Related phrases

zouk lovezouk-likelatin american

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