Usually means: Emphasis on even beats rhythmically.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word backbeat:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. backbeat: Merriam-Webster
  2. backbeat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backbeat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backbeat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backbeat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backbeat, backbeat: Wordnik
  7. backbeat: Wiktionary
  8. backbeat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. backbeat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. backbeat: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. backbeat: Dictionary.com
  12. BackBeat, Backbeat (disambiguation), Backbeat (film), Backbeat (music), Backbeat (soundtrack), Backbeat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. backbeat: Rhymezone
  14. backbeat: FreeDictionary.org
  15. backbeat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. backbeat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. backbeat: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. backbeat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. backbeat: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (backbeat)

noun:  (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.

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