Usually means: Soulful, expressive music, African roots.
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  1. rhythm and blues: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rhythm and blues: Merriam-Webster
  3. rhythm and blues: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rhythm and blues: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rhythm and blues: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rhythm and blues: Vocabulary.com
  7. rhythm and blues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rhythm and blues: Wiktionary
  9. rhythm-and-blues: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. rhythm-and-blues, rhythm and blues: Dictionary.com
  11. Rhythm and Blues (Garou album), Rhythm and Blues (TV series), Rhythm and Blues, Rhythm and blues (disambiguation), Rhythm and blues: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. rhythm and blues: Rhymezone
  13. rhythm and blues: FreeDictionary.org
  14. rhythm and blues: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Rhythm-and-blues, rhythm and blues: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rhythm-and-blues, rhythm and blues: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhythm and blues: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (rhythm and blues)

noun:  (music) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) Shoes.

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