hip-hop

Hip-hop is defined as 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.

The definition of hip-hop is urban culture or fashion associated with hip-hop music.

(noun)

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

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

noun

  1. 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
  2. the culture or a fashion, dance, etc. associated with this music

Origin: orig. uncert.

See hip-hop in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents.
  2. Rap music.
adjective
Of or characteristic of hip-hop culture.

Origin:

Origin: Probably hip2

Origin: + hop1

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