scat n : singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument [syn: scat singing] [also: scatting, scatted]scatting See scat

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Verb

scatting

1. third-person singular of scat

This article is about the use of nonsense syllables in jazz music. For the use of nonsense syllables in music generally, see Non-lexical vocables in music.

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