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| reg·gae [ ré gày ] |
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Jamaican popular music: popular music, originally from Jamaica, that combines rock, calypso, and soul and is characterized by heavy accentuation of the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar
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often used before a noun
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  a reggae beat
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| [Mid-20th century. Perhaps < Jamaican English reggay, alteration of rege "ragged fellow" <rag1] |
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