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mashup

/ ˈæʃʌ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mashup1

C20: from mash blend + up
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Example Sentences

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“Sinners,” the highly anticipated period drama delivering a mashup of horror, music and vampires, scored a solid opening, topping the holiday box office with $45.6 million.

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And a potato mashup called champ.

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Jones is a bold experimentalist in his fiction, employing a mashup of literary genres, often with horror as a key element.

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Though Earth, Wind & Fire went on hiatus in 1984, the sound of “Reasons” echoed through Prince’s “Adore” in 1987; Kravitz paid such loving homage to the album’s title track in his “It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over,” from 1991, that someone on YouTube made a seamless mashup of the two songs.

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I knew that the German language could come through with a mashup that had sufficient gravitas, but it is a language that I have not studied since the fall of sixth grade.

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