reggae

reggae
reggae 1968, Jamaican English (first in song title "Do the Reggay" by Toots & the Maytals), perhaps related to rege-rege "a quarrel, protest," lit. "ragged clothes," variant of raga-raga, alteration and reduplication of English RAG (Cf. rag) (n.).

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