— syncopator , n.
/sing"keuh payt', sin"-/ , v.t., syncopated, syncopating .
1. Music.
a. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented.
b. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
2. Gram. to contract (a word) by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in reducing Gloucester to Gloster.
[ 1595-1605; syncopatus (ptp. of syncopare to shorten by syncope). See SYNCOPE, -ATE 1 ]