SYNCOPATION

• (noun) music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm

• (noun) a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat

• (noun) (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

  synonyms : syncope

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