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Hip-hop

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Noun

1. hip-hop

an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city

2. hip-hop, rap, rap music

genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

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Hip-hop

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noun
a US pop culture movement originating in the 1980s comprising rap music, graffiti, and break dancing

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Hip-hop

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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

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Hip-hop

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n.
1. A style of music usually based on rap and often including elements of other styles such as funk or rhythm and blues.
2. An urban youth culture originating in the 1980s in New York City, involving such forms of expression as hip-hop music, b-boying, and graffiti art.
adj.
Of or characteristic of hip-hop culture.

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