Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

g-funk

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables: g--funk
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Man, I love sitting back and listening to some jived out G-funk!"
"The Chronic, and the other G-funk albums that followed, scandalized the civic engagement and racial ideals of gangsta's parent culture in several salient ways."

Etymology

Abbreviation of gangsta funk; also in imitation of P-Funk (“Parliament-Funkadelic”).

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does g-funk mean?: A kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.
Where does g-funk come from?: Abbreviation of gangsta funk; also in imitation of P-Funk (“Parliament-Funkadelic”).

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