Definitions

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  • proper noun a style of Central Amazonian folk music

Etymologies

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From Portuguese bumba-meu-boi, from boi ("bull").

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Examples

  • You can download the album on www. inmyworld.tv Artist: Naked Boi release date: Summer 2010 ***** Keep in touch with Naked Boi***** twitter. com/nakedboimw nakedboimw@gmail.commyspace.com/nakedboimw www. youtube.com/InMyWrLd

    WN.com - Articles related to Nestlé business growth rate outpaces GDP 2010

  • This is basically Sk8er Boi from the other side of the looking glass.

    Matthew Yglesias » Thank God 2007

  • Big Boi, aka Antwan Andre Patton, aka Daddy Fat Sax, aka Sir Luscious Left Foot, aka the less flamboyant half of the Atlanta hip-hop duo Outkast, aka longtime creative and business partner of Andre 3000.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Saki Knafo 2012

  • Scott Schmidt aka The Boi From Troy, one of the gay blogosphere's more popular gay Republicans, has hung up his blogging shoes for good, he says.

    Queerty 2009

  • Monáe's mentor and labelmate Big Boi of OutKast is headlining the same stage immediately afterwards, but she doesn't invite him on to perform the rap he recorded on her biggest single, Tightrope.

    Janelle Monáe at Glastonbury 2011 – review 2011

  • My music supervisor, Jonathan McHugh (I call him "Q" cause he's like my 007 secret weapon creator), set up a meeting with all the big music acts in the film (Big Boi, OK Go, Matt & Kim, Moby).

    Tamara Conniff: Q&A With Morgan Spurlock About The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Tamara Conniff 2011

  • Brooklyn s Air Waves opens the week at the Hi-Dive, while Big Boi--touring off of his acclaimed Sir Lucious...

    VIDEO: Denver's Weekly Concert Calendar Andrea Rael 2011

  • My music supervisor, Jonathan McHugh (I call him "Q" cause he's like my 007 secret weapon creator), set up a meeting with all the big music acts in the film (Big Boi, OK Go, Matt & Kim, Moby).

    Tamara Conniff: Q&A With Morgan Spurlock About The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Tamara Conniff 2011

  • Brooklyn's Air Waves opens the week at the Hi-Dive, while Big Boi--touring off of his acclaimed Sir Lucious...

    VIDEO: Denver's Weekly Concert Calendar Andrea Rael 2011

  • Featured performers included the veteran Americana composer Van Dyke Parks; chamber-pop musicians Clare and the Reasons, whose arrangements are built on a violin and cello; the folk vocal trio Mountain Man; and Big Boi of hip-hop's Outkast, who had nary a synth on stage, by Moog or any other brand.

    Moogfest's Difficult Dilemma Jim Fusilli 2010

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