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Dirty Dirty n. “I’m from the Dirty Dirty…,“ goes one of Pitbull’s most contagious raps, “Dirty.“ [English United States Southern Hip-Hop Music Nickname] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2004)

Dirty Dirty n. Banned in 47 Countries baby from the Dirty Dirty, to your Uranus. [English United States Southern Hip-Hop Music Nickname] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2004)

dirty dirty n. “People like to talk and divide us. People like to break us apart. But we all the Dirty South.“ “Dirty, dirty.“ [English United States Southern Hip-Hop Music Nickname] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2004)

Dirty South n. “I’m from the Dirty South,“ Hood quipped, in reference to the term now applied to rap music coming from this region. [English United States Southern Entertainment Hip-Hop Music Nickname] [full cite] (Oct. 10, 2004)

drop v. Ben Folds’ new album, Songs for Silverman, came out (or “dropped,“ in the rapper parlance) last Tuesday. [English Entertainment Music] [full cite] (May. 7, 2005)

dubplate n. The real money is not in album sales but in live shows, and in dubplates: customized versions of singles, each one personalized with a salute to the D.J. who commissioned it. He often charges $500 to $1,500 for dubplates (though some important D.J.‘s get them cheaply or even free), and he might record more than a hundred dubplates of a big hit. [English Jamaica Music] [full cite] (Mar. 9, 2006)

EBM n. It is widely accepted that the term “Electronic Body Music” or EBM was coined by Belgian pioneers Front 242, a prolific band (created in 1981 by Daniel Bressanutti and Dirk Bergen), that came into prominence during the 1980s and have remained firm favourites on EBM dancefloors around the world ever since. [Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Jun. 22, 2004)

eef v. Deke Dickerson, called a “rock mainstay” in an April 2003 article in Guitar Player Magazine, is an old “eefer” himself. He explains that eefin is a “sort of wheezing-in-rhythm thing that was popular amongst hillbillies. It goes WAY back but for some reason had some kind of mass-culture resurgence around the late 60’s, probably due to HeeHaw on TV which featured Jimmy Riddle eefing on the show.” [English Music] [full cite] (Jan. 6, 2007)

festivarian n. Without all of these components, the festivarians wouldn’t be steering their VW buses towards Lawrence this week. And without the festivarians, The Wakarusa Festival would be selling about as many tickets as this weekend’s less-than-marquee showdown between the Kansas City Royals and the Houston Astros. [English Entertainment Music] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2006)

filin n. Paredes adds, through an interpreter, that he’s been influenced by the “filin” movement in Cuban music. Filin (a derivation of the word “feeling”). [English-derived Spanish Cuba Music] [full cite] (May. 5, 2005)

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