Meaning

An African-American urban youth culture based on rap music, breakdancing etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. An African-American urban youth culture based on rap music, breakdancing etc.
2. (music) A form of popular and dance music featuring strong percussion and a powerful rhythm, usually accompanied by rapping.
3. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To move by hopping or with a hopping motion.
4. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To perform hip-hop music.

Example Sentences

2007, James McBide, Hip-Hop Planet, National Geographic (April 2007), 106, "...not knowning as they strolled through the doors of the community center near Bambaataa's mother's apartment that they were writing musical history. Among them was an MC named Lovebug Starski, who was said to utter the phrase 'hip-hop' between breaks in time."

Even though Houston’s moment was already fading by the late 2000s, the city’s hip-hop culture proved to be endlessly portable and disseminatable.

Placing the hoops in this position makes skirts hip hop with a swirl.

I have a bunny and he goes hip hop, I often wonder if he cannot stop.

Like magic, the frog hip-hopped out of her thoughts and the starlings came fluttering back and Sammy was there.

I'm not entirely sure who in WCW felt like a bunch of hip-hopping rappers would get cheered in a company based mainly in the south (especially with a country band stable on the other side), but everything's a good idea in theory.

Word Forms

• hiphop
• hip hop
• hip-hops
• hip-hopping
• hip-hopped

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Use hip-hop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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