mash-up
or mash·up
[mash-uhp]
- Music, Slang. a recording that combines vocal and instrumental tracks from two or more recordings.
- Slang. a creative combination or mixing of content from different sources: movie mash-ups; a web mash-up that overlays digital maps with crime statistics.
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What results is a kind of mashup concert, a virtuoso mixed-media DJ set tuned to a keen emotional pitch.
Someone suggested a mashup: Sam- for Sam Battistone Sr. and –bo for Newell Bohnett.
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June 30, 2014
From Lorde to Daft Punk, DJ Earworm seamlessly edited a mashup of the 25 biggest hits of 2013.
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It was a mashup of two Spanish words: tronada, which means thunderstorm, and tornar, to turn, to twist, to return.
Part right-wing hottie, part sensitive movie star, read the best tweets from the Paul Ryan Gosling mashup.
mashup
- a piece of recorded or live music in which a producer or DJ blends together two or more tracks, often of contrasting genres
- a hybrid website that collates and displays information taken from various other online sources
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Word Origin
C20: from mash blend + up
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