Etymology

millennial whoop

Today it means: A repeated motif of three notes consisting of a fifth, followed by a third, and returning to the fifth, extremely common in pop music of the early 21st century. Full definition →

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Coined in 2016 by the musician Patrick Metzger.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.