blue beat

A form of bluebeat — Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, precursor of reggae.

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Meanings

nounblue beat (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of bluebeat

    In February 1964, Melody Maker reported that blue beat was going to be the next big craze to sweep England with a headline that proclaimed, “It is going to be a blue beat year!”

    2021, Alexandra M. Apolloni, Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 119
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APA

blue beat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blue%20beat

MLA

“blue beat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blue%20beat. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blue beat,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blue%20beat.

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