dancehall
nounEtymology From dance + hall.
1
A public hall for dancing.
- Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125:
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.
- It sounded Jamaican to me, a form of dancehall, and […] I wandered over and watched the dancing.2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 271:
- Derived terms
- taxi dance hall