grime
n. uncountablen. a style of electronic dance music that started in London. It has fast beats and often features people rapping over dark, heavy sounds.
n. a genre of electronic dance music originating in London in the early 2000s, characterized by a tempo of approximately 140 bpm and elements of hip hop and UK garage. Often features aggressive or rapid-fire lyrical delivery over syncopated, bass-heavy production.
He listens to grime while he works out.
The underground club became famous for hosting the city's most influential grime artists every Friday night.
Emerging from the housing estates of East London, grime evolved from a localized pirate radio phenomenon into a globally recognized genre that redefined the landscape of British urban music.
From Middle English grim (“dirt or soot covering the face”), from a specialized use of Old English grīma (“mask”), from Proto-West Germanic grīmō, from Proto-Germanic grīmô (“mask”). Likely influenced by dialectal Dutch grijmsel (“grit, grime”), Dutch grijm (“soot, grime”), Middle Dutch gryme (“mask”), Middle Low German greme (“dirt”), compare Danish grime (“a halter”), Danish grimet (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Bokmål grimete (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Nynorsk grimete (“soiled, stripy”).
Uncountable when referring to the musical genre; can be used as a modifier in noun phrases like 'grime artist' or 'grime scene'.