hip-hop

Hip-hop is a type of music that is influenced by rap and funk, often including melody and rhythm of previously recorded songs. (noun)

An example of hip-hop is Snoop Dogg's music.

Hip-hop is urban culture or fashion associated with hip-hop music. (noun)

An example of hip-hop is wearing sagging jeans with sneakers.

See hip-hop in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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noun

a form of popular music that originated among inner-city African-American youths in the 1980s, drawing on rap, funk, street sounds, and fragments of melody and rhythm borrowed from previously recorded sources
the culture or a fashion, dance, etc. associated with this music

See hip-hop in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(hĭpˈhŏpˌ) or hip hop

noun