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| funk [ fungk ] |
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1. musical style: popular music that derives from jazz, blues, and soul and is characterized by a heavy rhythmic bass and backbeat
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2. earthy musical quality: a rhythmic earthy quality in music
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3. U.S. lack of worldliness: lack of sophistication, especially the kind of simplicity or naiveté thought by some to be characteristic of rural or provincial areas
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| [Mid-20th century. Back-formation <funky] |
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