Definition of "groove"

groove

/ɡɹuːv/

noun
plural grooves
1. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
2. A fixed routine.
  Quotations
  Through these distresses, the Odd Girl was cheerful and exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen “Eyes,” and was in hysterics.
  1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C. Whiting, […], page 4
  The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.
  1873, John Morley, Rousseau
  His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half.
  2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎
3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
4. (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
  Quotations
  Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat / And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
  1979, “Rapper's Delight”, performed by The Sugarhill Gang
  Let the music play / He won't get away / This groove he can't ignore
  1983, Chris Barbosa, Ed Chisolm (lyrics and music), “Let the Music Play”, performed by Shannon
  Get into the groove / Boy, you've got to prove / Your love to me / Get up on your feet / Yeah, step to the beat
  1985, Stephen Bray, Madonna (lyrics and music), “Into the Groove”, in Like a Virgin, performed by Madonna
5. (dated, informal) A good feeling (often as in the groove).
  Quotations
  How could he be expected to make music that put the audience in a groove, he reasoned, if he wasn't grooving himself?
  2010, Jan Reid, Shawn Sahm, Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm, page 57
6. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
7. (motor racing) A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)
verb
third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved
1. (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
  Quotations
  The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
  1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 37, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, page 186
2. (intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

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