beat box
Mouth-made drum sounds
Beat box refers to vocal percussion—using the mouth, lips, tongue, and voice to imitate drum machines, turntables, and other musical sounds.
The practice emerged from hip-hop culture in the 1980s.
As a verb, to beatbox is to perform this technique: He can beatbox while someone else raps.
Also spelled beatbox.
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