mashup

/ ˈmæʃʌp /

noun

1. a piece of recorded or live music in which a producer or DJ blends together two or more tracks, often of contrasting genres

2. a hybrid website that collates and displays information taken from various other online sources

Word History and Origins

Origin of mashup¹

C20: from _mash blend + _up

Example Sentences

Their songs resembled a mashup of 80s rock bands – like "really classic rock hits that had been put in a blender".

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In several ways, “Picturing Shakespeare” is the fulfillment of a PBS programmer’s fantasy mashup.

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Less successful were a half-baked mashup, “Beauty and Mr. Beast,” about the popular YouTuber, and a sorority sketch with Mikey Day as an interloping man wearing a bad facial disguise.

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“I think God just has his hand on him and is using him to speak to a generation through music,” said Caleb Grimm, a Christian singer who makes popular mashup videos with his wife Kelsey.

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Even while toning it down for the largest audience he’ll ever have, Mr. Fuentes still came off as an internet mashup of the worst of the 20th century.

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