From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishreggaereg‧gae /ˈreɡeɪ/ noun [uncountable] APMa kind of popular music originally from Jamaica, with a strong regular beat
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reggae• Everyone tapped their toes and got into the swing a reggae one rather than an electoral one.• One day I went to the nearby yacht club where a open-air reggae festival continued well into the night.• Here you can snorkel or simply relax with a beer and enjoy the sounds of Neville's calypso and reggae music.• Funk, jazz and reggae influence their sound, but the result never dips into a Western dirge.• But whereas calypso now only rarely contains a political message reggae almost always does.• But Cirrito is quick to point out that Rastafarianism is a religion, whereas reggae is a beat.• If Island were having hits with reggae music, Virgin should be too.Origin reggae (1900-2000) Jamaican English rege “rags” 