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House music, House n
  1. a type of disco music originating in the late 1980s, based on funk, with fragments of other recordings edited in electronically
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
house mu′sic, 
  1. Music and Dancean up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
  • probably after the Warehouse, a dance club in Chicago 1985–90

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