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- noun motor vehicles A
four-speed manual transmission mounted beside thedriver on the floor of the vehicle. - noun idiomatic, music A
steady , uniformly accentedbeat with a 4/4time signature .
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Examples
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I wanted something that had a chugging, four-on-the-floor beat.
Jon Chattman: A-Sides with Jon Chattman: Motopony Rides and TAB says "I Love You" Jon Chattman 2011
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The shifter was a tall four-on-the-floor with a white billiard ball for a knob.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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The shifter was a tall four-on-the-floor with a white billiard ball for a knob.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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Though Derrick Carter eschews the limelight, he's one of the dons of Chicago house music, creating sensual, soulful electronic dance music with sparse arrangements but thumping four-on-the-floor beats.
Nightlife Agenda: Paul Oakenfold, Michael Mayer and outdoor parties 2010
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The shifter was a tall four-on-the-floor with a white billiard ball for a knob.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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If you love the four-on-the-floor party beat of Baltimore Club music, DJ Sega should be an essential part of your iTunes collection.
Nightlife Agenda 2010
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Don't think four-on-the-floor dance cuts; instead, envision powerful and tasteful low-end, percussively intelligent, moving and sweeping in the landscape while strings and voices grace the surface.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Carmen Rizzo Tackles Tuvan Throat Singing 2009
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They are not your expectable four-on-the-floor standards, but percussively intricate cuts that reference global rhythmic patterns.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Four for the Dance Floor 2009
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They were trying to make a blues-based music for the nuclear age, as it were, and so you have this incredible reserve and very heavy four-on-the-floor drumming, and you know, it was bombs away with the blues, more or less.
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The proto-disco song is noted for its driving hi-hats and was a blueprint for subsequent four-on-the-floor dance records.
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