(of music or a rhythm) characterized by displaced beats or accents so that the strong beats are weak and vice versa
the melodic baselines and syncopated rhythms of funk
a syncopated dance beat
displace the beats or accents in (music or a rhythm) so that strong beats become weak and vice versa
soloists maintain the absolute freedom to syncopate the rhythm or break free from the beat entirely
shorten (a word) by dropping sounds or letters in the middle, as in symbology for symbolology, or Gloster for Gloucester