mash-up

noun

ˈmash-ˌəp 

: 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

Examples of mash-up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The movie appears to be a mash-up of two east asian unarmed fitting styles: karate and kung fu. —Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024

And Grand Tour, Portugal’s hopeful, another experimental offering from Miguel Gomes, who won best director in Cannes for the black-and-white period/documentary mash-up, was also overlooked. —Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024

Stage favorite Kenneth Kelleher directs Mark Shanahan’s mash-up of Charles Dickens’ ghostly tale and Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective fiction, and L. Peter Callender pours every expression possible into his performance as Sherlock Holmes. —Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 30 Nov. 2024

Christmas and Halloween collide in this clever stop-motion holiday mash-up dreamed up by Tim Burton. —EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

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