Definitions of hip-hop [ˈhɪpˌhɒp]

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Definition of 'hip-hop'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (Slang.) hip-hop
the popular subculture of usu. black urban youth.

Etymology: (1980–85)

Definition of 'hip-hop'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) hip-hop
an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city

2. (noun) rap, rap music, hip-hop
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

Definition of 'hip-hop'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) hip-hop
a style of popular music

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