HIP-HOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hip-hop mean? 

• HIP-HOP (noun)
  The noun HIP-HOP has 2 senses:

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

2. 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

  Familiarity information: HIP-HOP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIP-HOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("hip-hop" is a kind of...):

youth culture (young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

hip-hop; rap; rap music

Hypernyms ("hip-hop" is a kind of...):

African-American music; black music (music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses)

popular music; popular music genre (any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time))

 Context examples 

From ballet and Zumba to Jazzercise, salsa, techno, swing, ballroom, and hip-hop, there are plenty of ways to have fun as you get fit.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)