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"ref": "2014, Michael W. Waters, Freestyle: Reflections on Faith, Family, Justice, and Pop Culture, Fresh Air Books",
"text": "In the world of hip hop, many freestyle artists have been known to speak, “Check one, check two!” into the microphone. The phrasing serves two purposes: (1) to put the freestyle artist on rhythm with the beat and (2) […]",
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"ref": "2012, Sarah Marx Feldner, A Cook's Journey to Japan: 100 Homestyle Recipes from Japanese Kitchens, Tuttle Publishing",
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"ref": "2012 March 2, Nick Minichino, “A Quick Primer On Freestyle: 1980s Dancepop's Most Underheralded Genre”, in The Village Voice",
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"roman": "košti-ye âzâd",
"sense": "style of wrestling",
"word": "کشتی آزاد"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "style of wrestling",
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"word": "vale-tudo"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "form of rapping",
"word": "freestyle"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "form of rapping",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "freestyle"
},
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "form of rapping",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "freestyle"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "form of rapping",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fristajl"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "form of rapping",
"word": "freestyle"
}
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"freestyle"
],
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}
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"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "freestyling",
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"pos": "verb",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2016, Jensen Karp, Kanye West Owes Me $300: And Other True Stories from a White Rapper Who Almost Made It Big, Crown, page 47",
"text": "And just hours after the famous golfer died in an airplane accident, I freestyled to a less talented rival, “Stop now before you get hurt / Your whole style should never take flight like Payne Stewart.”",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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"To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib."
],
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"rap music",
"rap music"
],
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"improvise"
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"ad-lib"
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],
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"(intransitive, especially in rap music) To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib."
],
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"in rap music"
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"tags": [
"especially",
"intransitive"
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},
{
"categories": [
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"glosses": [
"To improvise one's dance moves; dance freely."
],
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"(intransitive) To improvise one's dance moves; dance freely."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɹiːˌstaɪl/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "free-style"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to ad-lib in rap music",
"word": "freestylen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aftoschediázo",
"sense": "to ad-lib in rap music",
"word": "αυτοσχεδιάζω"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to ad-lib in rap music",
"word": "ohia"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to ad-lib in rap music",
"word": "freestyle'ować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to ad-lib in rap music",
"word": "fristajlować"
}
],
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"freestyle"
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