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alt. (context music English) A style of drumming, prevalent in reggae and attributed to Winston Grennan, in which the snare and bass play on the same beat. n. (context music English) A style of drumming, prevalent in reggae and attributed to Winston Grennan, in which the snare and bass play on the same beat.
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One drop may refer to:
- One Drop Foundation, a non-profit organization that advocates for equal access to water
- One drop rhythm, a rhythmic pattern used in reggae music and related styles
- One-drop rule, a law in the south of the USA before the USA Civil War that stated that a person with any African ancestry was considered black
"One Drop" is a Japanese language song, and the ninth single, by Japanese boy band, KAT-TUN, and their third from their fourth studio album, Break the Records: By You & For You. It was released on February 11, 2009 and is the group's ninth consecutive number one single on the Oricon daily and weekly charts.
The song is sung in Japanese, but includes a few phrases sung in English, of which the title comes from the phrase "Only lonely your tear drop oh ...."
"One Drop" is a 1979 Bob Marley song from the album Survival (1979) notable for exemplifying the one drop rhythm, one of the three main reggae drum rhythms, as performed by The Wailers' drummer Carlton Barrett. The song uses Marley's most militantly Rastafarian lyrics. The song was re-released on the compilation album Gold (2005).
The name One Drop is also used by the Marley Beverage Company, partly associated with the family of Bob Marley, as the brand name for Marley "premium Jamaican coffee beverage made with real cane sugar and all-natural ingredients".
Usage examples of "one drop".
Pressing sweet peach juice from a handful of dried pits would be easier than squeezing one drop of pity from this hunter's heart, and mercy would more likely be wrung from any stone.
Meanwhile, the governor had heard some one drop upon the battlement outside from a turret, and the next instant a man sprang through the window, with a yard-long Zhaibar knife in his hand, and bade the governor make no sound.
He had neither quenched his own thirst, nor brought us one drop in his gourd.
O Sophia, how easily could I drain my veins to preserve one drop of that dear blood.
You get one drop of that pitch on my deck-planking and I'll shove that cauldron up your ass.
If you let one drop spill, you'll be tortured until you beg me to kill you.
For in those plains and deserts where they engaged in combat and came out wounded, it was not always that there was some one to cure them, unless indeed they had for a friend some sage magician to succour them at once by fetching through the air upon a cloud some damsel or dwarf with a vial of water of such virtue that by tasting one drop of it they were cured of their hurts and wounds in an instant and left as sound as if they had not received any damage whatever.
Thou canst not tell where one drop of water or one grain of sand will be to-morrow noon.
And it isn't much inconvenience, either, to have one drop of water fall on your head.