mash-up

noun

ˈmash-ˌəp How to pronounce mash-up (audio)
: something created by combining elements from two or more sources: such as
a
: a piece of music created by digitally overlaying an instrumental track with a vocal track from a different recording
b
: a movie or video having characters or situations from other sources
c
: a web service or application that integrates data and functionalities from various online sources

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Like Dante, Nick Tosches was an undaunted character whose tongue-twisting prose was an iconoclastic mash-up of realism and intricate, erudite lyricism. — A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 6 Aug. 2026 Alison Kennedy was the heiress of a wealthy Palo Alto family who would later adopt the alter ego Queen Mu and launch an influential cyberculture magazine called Mondo 2000, a futuristic mash-up of technology, psychedelics, and arts writing. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026 British artist Philip Colberthas installed 36 giant lobster sculptures among Pompeii’s ancient ruins, creating a surreal mash-up of pop art and Roman history inspired by a 2,000-year-old lobster mosaic found at the site. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026 An avant-garde sightseeing bus turns Hollywood into a stage, drawing locals for a mash-up of state history, gothic storytelling and public-intellectual riffing on the broken California dream. — Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for mash-up

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mash-up was in 1859

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mash-up

noun
ˈmash-ˌəp
: something created by combining elements from two or more sources: as
a
: a piece of music created by digitally overlaying an instrumental track with a vocal track from a different recording
b
: a movie or video having characters or situations from other sources
c
: a Web service or application that integrates data and functions from various online sources
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