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hip-hop definition

☆ hip-hop (hip′häp′)

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

Etymology: orig. uncert.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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