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• n  (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
• n  a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
• n  music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm

• A generation of Japanese youngsters has dropped out of society entirely, unable to cope, it seems, with the rapid syncopation of life in Asia's most developed nation.
• The 1928 "Nagasaki" is something like the definitive gotta-get-up-and-do-the-Charleston song, with Warrens effervescent syncopation dragging the folks onto the dance floor and .
• There's a sly hipster syncopation to his cadence, "Been stuck there for a while.

• syncope

News & Articles

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• All aboard the ragtime fundraiser for Car 1409
  On Wednesday evening, July 17, the Country's top performer of ragtime and boogie-woogie music, Bob Milne, is sitting down to the keys of the Pacifica Moose Lodge's rollicking old upright to deliver some blow-your-socks off, stride-piano syncopation, to raise money for the last passenger car of the
  July 3, 2013 - Pacifica Tribune

Quotes

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• Jay Z in Entertainment Weekly
  I remember him calling me and him just talking about, you know, 'syncopation' and musician stuff like that,Jay-Z says at the end of his piece. "The Michael Jackson I knew was just a musician who loved music."
• Scott Joplin in Chicago Tribune
  It is the unwholesome words and not the ragtime melodies that many people hate,ragtime king Scott Joplin said in 1913, using the race vernacular of the period: "Ragtime rhythm is a syncopation original with the colored people, though many...
• Jonathan Miller in guardian.co.uk
  Nothing seems to have moved out of place in the six months since I first saw him at the Palladium,wrote Jonathan Miller 40 years ago. "Every trip, pause and syncopation still comes exactly as it did. An iridescent show of artful dodging."