ˈsüˌküs noun
( -es )
Etymology: African French (of Brazzaville and Kinshasa) soucous, soukous , a dance popular in the late 1960s, alteration of French secousse jolt, jerk, from Middle French, from feminine of secous , past participle of secourre to shake, from Old French, from Latin succutere to shake from below, jolt — more at succussion
: popular guitar-driven dance music created in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the influence of Cuban rumba