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HIP-HOP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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))
Sense 2
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)
