1. singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument; [syn: scat, scat singing]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scat singing
n 1: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for
the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical
instrument [syn: scat, scat singing]