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The answer FUNKY has 13 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of funky in various dictionaries:
adj - offensively malodorous
adj - (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
adj - stylish and modern in an unconventional way
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| Wild Cherry:"Play That ____ Music" |
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| (of music) having or using a strong dance rhythm, in particular that of funk. |
| Frightened, panicky, or cowardly. |
| Strongly musty. |
| offensively malodorous |
| (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues |
| in a state of cowardly fright |
| used to describe a style of music, usually for dancing to, with a strong rhythm based on jazz and a tune that repeats: |
| fashionable in an unusual and noticeable way: |
| having a bad smell or appearance: |
| in a style that is informal and unusual: |
| Funky might refer to |
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| Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B). Funk de-emphasizes melody and chord progressions used in other related genres and brings a strong rhythmic groove of a bass line played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a drummer to the foreground. Like much of African-inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves. Funk uses the same richly colored extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths. * Funk originated in the mid-1960s, with James Brown's development of a signature groove that emphasized the downbeatwith heavy emphasis on the first beat of every measure ("The One"), and the application of swung 16th notes and syncopation on |