SCAT SINGING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument

Synonyms:

scat; scat singing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("scat singing" is a kind of...):

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)

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