Definitions for ring-shout

ring-shout ring shout

Ring-Shout is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 548 anagrams from letters in ring-shout (-ghinorstu).

Definitions for ring-shout

noun

  1. a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.

Origin of ring-shout

An Americanism dating back to 1930-35

Word Value for ring-shout
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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