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
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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