SOUKOUS


Meaning of SOUKOUS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈsü-ˌküs ]

noun

Etymology: African French (of Brazzaville and Kinshasa) soucous, soukous, a dance popular in the late 1960s, alteration of French secousse jolt, jerk

Date: 1982

: popular guitar-driven dance music created in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the influence of Cuban rumba

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.