mashup
Britishnoun
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a piece of recorded or live music in which a producer or DJ blends together two or more tracks, often of contrasting genres
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a hybrid website that collates and displays information taken from various other online sources
Etymology
Origin of mashup
C20: from mash blend + up
Example Sentences
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Camp vulnerability and country vibes mingle in a mashup of queer exuberance and Marie Antoinette libertinism: between songs, Roan waves a pink feather fan.
From Salon
Their final choice was a mashup of “Blades of Glory” and “Charlie’s Angels.”
From Los Angeles Times
Budweiser also came first for voters in USA Today’s annual Ad Meter popularity contest, followed by Lay’s portrait of a daughter taking over her family potato farm, Pepsi’s story of a CGI polar bear with a strong resemblance to Coca-Cola’s longtime mascots, Dunkin’s sitcom mashup and a Michelob Ultra commercial starring Kurt Russell and Olympic athletes.
The mashup values the rocket maker/AI company at $1.25 trillion before an expected IPO, maybe as soon as this summer, that’s likely to raise tens of billions of dollars for giant rockets and data centers in outer space.
So she just made one up, a mashup of two nicknames friends had given her: Nano Banana.
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