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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An audio or video recording that is a composite of samples from other recordings.
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Examples
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The creatures peering out from the round hole on the cover of "A Place to Call Home" Candlewick, 34 pages, $16.99 are not mice, exactly, or chipmunks, or rabbits, but a cheerful mash-up of all three.
A Strong Woman Who Saved Lives Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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"It's a cheerful, seizure-inducing temporal mash-up pulsating along to a bouncy chip-tune soundtrack," says Rob Hearn.
The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one 2011
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The video is a shorter mash-up of media figures echoing Democrats 'disapproval of Conway's "Aqua Buddha" ad.
Ad of the day: Brown gets Whitman to endorse him (sort of) Emi Kolawole 2010
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The result is a mash-up of 9 To 5, Strangers On A Train and The Hangover, and as usual, Bateman's dry wit is an oasis of calm in a movie full of showy comic turns from Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and others.
Jason Bateman: 'I've got a great deal of dirt on Jenifer Aniston' 2011
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Johnny Hiro vol. 1, by Fred Chao, AdHouse: Charming genre mash-up comics grounded by a wonderful romantic relationship between young lovers trying to make their way in the big city.
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The mash-up with "Sesame Street" highlights one aspect of Willow Smith's song: It's a black girl proudly declaring her love for her hair.
'Whip My Hair' and 'Sesame Street': A power ballad for black hair Melissa Bell 2010
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Powerful, world-changing ideas were exchanged during the 2011 Nexus Global Youth Summit, simply from the "mash-up" of young and eager philanthropists and social entrepreneurs who want to change the world.
April Rudin: Next Generation Wealth -- Creating Pathways for Armies of Good April Rudin 2011
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Point being, The Smurfs can take solace that it somewhat over-performed this weekend, while the Jon Favreau genre mash-up may go down as one of the bigger whiffs of the summer season.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: The Smurfs, Cowboys and Aliens Do Battle, Tying With $36.2 Million, While Stupid Crazy Love Opens With $19.2 Million Scott Mendelson 2011
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The ambitious network correspondent sleeping with the president's husband is a mash-up of all those hot White House newsbabes.
Inside-the-beltway guessing game: who inspired the characters in Nicolle Wallace's novel? The Reliable Source 2010
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With its demented mash-up style, Transformers 3 is the strangest, most atomised and hybridised mainstream American movie since Richard Kelly's nutty Southland Tales, which it rivals in its blissful incoherence and in its insane, unselfconscious and probably unachievable pop-culty ambitions.
ecbrenner commented on the word mash-up
"A new breed of Web-based applications created by hackers and programmers (typically on a volunteer basis) to mix at least two different services from disparate, and even competing, Web sites. A mash-up, for example, could overlay traffic data from one source on the Internet over maps from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google or any content provider. The term mash-up comes from the hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more songs." --Webopedia
March 27, 2009
john commented on the word mash-up
See also mashup.
March 27, 2009
jodi commented on the word mash-up
This post traces its etymology to 1859, according to the OED: http://dltj.org/article/mash-up/
March 18, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mash-up
Here's another early use as a noun:
"One from 647 feet is a mash-up of soft, grey, shaly rock enclosing fragments of hard slate or argillite."
--W. Whitaker and A. J. Jukes-Browne, 1894, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 50: 492
March 19, 2010
reesetee commented on the word mash-up
Wow. I didn't know they had the Interwebs that long ago.
March 24, 2010
bilby commented on the word mash-up
They were steam-driven Interwebs back then.
March 24, 2010
reesetee commented on the word mash-up
Ah, of course.
March 24, 2010