opskud, noun

Forms:
Also opskut.
Origin:
See opskud verb intransitive
a. Music. A vigorous style of dance music in the boeremusiek tradition. b. The style of dancing performed to this music. See also opskud verb sense 2.
1941 W.M.B. Nhlapo in Bantu World 1 Mar. 9Dancing clubs deplore engaging Bantu dance bands..on the false ground that Bantu bands play nothing but ‘tsaba-tsaba’. Having heard Coloureds play their ‘op-skuds and draais and polkas’, we challenge this supremacy.
[1969 A. Fugard Boesman & Lena (1973) (Glossary)Vastrap, Tickey-Draai, Opskud en uitkap, traditional South African folk dances.]
[1986 Style Oct. 132Kicking up the dust of a mine dump to the stomp of opskiet-musiek.]
A vigorous style of dance music in the boeremusiek tradition.
The style of dancing performed to this music.
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