rebetiko

Borrowed from Greek ρεμπέτικο (rempétiko, “rebetiko”).

rebetiko (countable and uncountable, plural rebetika)

1. (music) A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the bouzouki. [from 20th c.]
   • 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin:

     I need another player to put a Greek melody over the top, perhaps a rebetiko of some sort.

2. (music, in the plural) This style of music; such music as a genre. [from 20th c.]
   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172:

     At the time, these earliest songs of the rebetika tradition were a symptom and a particular manifestation of a wider climate of violence, criminality and despair, whether real or imagined, that permeated the Greek capital around the turn of the century.

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• rebetika
• rembetiko

• IPA^(key): [ɾɛbɛtikɔ]
• Hyphenation: re‧be‧ti‧ko

rebetiko

1. rebetiko