beatbox
Speech parts
1. beatbox - Noun
2. beatbox - Verb
Meaning
beatbox (plural beatboxes)
(music) A type of electronic percussion device.
beatbox (third-person singular simple present beatboxes, present participle beatboxing, simple past and past participle beatboxed)
(music) To use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats and rhythms for music.
Examples
I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.
I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.
I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.
When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.
I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.