Usually means: Traditional singing involving rapid pitch changes.
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  1. yodel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yodel: Merriam-Webster
  3. yodel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yodel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yodel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yodel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yodel, yodel: Wordnik
  8. yodel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. yodel: Wiktionary
  10. yodel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. yodel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yodel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yodel: Dictionary.com
  14. yodel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. yodel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Yodel (company), Yodel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Yodel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. yodel: Rhymezone
  19. yodel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. yodel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. yodel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. yodel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yodel: Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See yodeled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive and intransitive) To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.
noun:  An act of yodelling.
noun:  A song incorporating yodelling.

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