skweee
n.— «I had been making skweee for a while and everything was sort of on and popping and bubbling, like it still feels, and Harmönia was compiling their second 12 inch release. So I decided to make a track dedicated to this “brand new funky sound…we call skweee.” And since I baptized the funk I thought it would be up to me to hold the sermon too.» —“He Called It Skweee” Skweeelicious! Jan. 9, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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