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

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

Rankin’s absurdist comedy is set in an alternative Canada where Farsi, alongside French, is an official language and the culture is a mash-up of Persian tradition and the Great White North. —Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024

Her distinctive point of view shines in culinary inventions like coconut crispy rice crepes and a banh mi-po’ boy mash-up. —Devorah Lev-Tov, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 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