mashup
Britishnoun
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a piece of recorded or live music in which a producer or DJ blends together two or more tracks, often of contrasting genres
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a hybrid website that collates and displays information taken from various other online sources
Etymology
Origin of mashup
C20: from mash blend + up
Example Sentences
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Budweiser also came first for voters in USA Today’s annual Ad Meter popularity contest, followed by Lay’s portrait of a daughter taking over her family potato farm, Pepsi’s story of a CGI polar bear with a strong resemblance to Coca-Cola’s longtime mascots, Dunkin’s sitcom mashup and a Michelob Ultra commercial starring Kurt Russell and Olympic athletes.
The mashup values the rocket maker/AI company at $1.25 trillion before an expected IPO, maybe as soon as this summer, that’s likely to raise tens of billions of dollars for giant rockets and data centers in outer space.
So she just made one up, a mashup of two nicknames friends had given her: Nano Banana.
He also performed a “Winter Wonderland”/”Here Comes Santa Claus” mashup with Anna Kendrick in 2015’s “Pitch Perfect 2.”
From Los Angeles Times
Its irregular volumes, pastel colors, elevated decks, jagged rooflines and collage of materials — stucco, corrugated metal, broken tile — echo the local mashup of artist studios, surf shacks and light-industrial sheds.
From Los Angeles Times
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