skweee

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noun

A musical style combining simple synth or chiptune leads and basslines with rhythms from funk, rhythm and blues or soul music.

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Meanings

nounskweee (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA musical style combining simple synth or chiptune leads and basslines with rhythms from funk, rhythm and blues or soul music.

    Far from mainstream, but skweee definitely has outgrown its humble, stoned beginnings.

    2009, SPIN, volume 25, number 4, page 30
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    Operating below the radar in the Nordic countries, the skweee movement unites musicians intent on exploring the spaces left by dancehall and R&B.

    2008, The Wire, volumes 293-298, page 24

    But since the mid-2000s, on the rare occasions when 'future' did surface, it tended to have an elegiac tone, a retro tint: Kode9's Memories of the Future, or Museum of the Future, a compilation of skweee (a Scandinavian electronic style heavily influenced by eighties synth-based funk).

    2013, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

    You might also consider the following list: Skweee, shallow house, suburban garage, crack house, UK merengue, […]

    2013, Nicholas Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson, Electronic Music, page 210

Origin

Perhaps imitative. Said by Swedish DJ Daniel Savio to derive from squeeze, since the genre involves squeezing impressive results from simple electronic equipment.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with skweee

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Sounds the same

squee

Anagrams

weekes
Cite this entry
APA

skweee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skweee

MLA

“skweee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skweee. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skweee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skweee.

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