Usually means: Vocal harmony-based rhythm and blues.
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  1. doo-wop: Merriam-Webster
  2. doo-wop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doo-wop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doo-wop, doo-wop: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Doo-Wop, doo-wop: Wordnik
  7. doo-wop, doo wop: Wiktionary
  8. doo-wop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. doo-wop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. doo-wop: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. doo-wop, doo wop: Dictionary.com
  12. doo-wop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Doo-Wop, Doo Wop (That Thing), Doo Wop (disambiguation), Doo Wop, Doo-wop, Doo wop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. doo-wop: Rhymezone
  15. doo-wop: FreeDictionary.org
  16. doo-wop: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. Doo-Wop, doo -wop, doo wop: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Doo wop)

noun:  Alternative form of doo-wop [A style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that was mostly popular within Black Americans of African descent in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s that is best characterized by nonsensical backing vocals with very little to no instrumentation.]

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