rhythm and blues

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Noun

1. (music genre) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) shoes

Synonyms

• R&B, R & B

Translations

• German: Rhythm and Blues
• Russian: ритм-энд-блю́з

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