Definition of "beatboxing" [beatboxing]

• The practice of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop. (noun)
• Present participle of beatbox. (verb)

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• "The beatboxing is cool; it's when he lapses into distortion and other ear-piercing, atonal sound that I start wishing I were deaf."
• "The cardboard props are a riot and Gollum beatboxing is breathtaking for all the wrong reasons, but I think it’s the rappers’ performances that sell me on this stuff."
• "– QEH are a bit weird about that, although I’ve seen moshing there before now …) and after all the impressive beatboxing, especially Faith SFX, it came over as not as good or as innovative … they did some limp r ‘n’b numbers and MC Chips (yeah exactly) talked down to the audience after all that earlier demonstration and education in beatboxing, we don’t need another demonstration (1 po-tata!"