ho-wop
n.— «On “My Baby’s Lost,” [Eamon] even sounds like a potty-mouthed Frankie Vali. The New York crooner claims to have masterminded a new genre he calls “ho-wop”: “raw hip- hop and smooth doo-wop.”» —“For the Record” by Scott Mervis Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Feb. 20, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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