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

Rolling Stone’s David Fear called the film a mash-up between Uncut Gems and Pretty Woman. —Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024

Advertisement The tanks, skewed from an ordinary rectangular shape to an angled parallelogram, each hold a sculptural model of a cityscape — New York, Washington, D.C., and, judging from the architecture, what appears to be a mash-up of Beijing, Chicago, San Francisco and other global urban sites. —Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024

Outside of the venues will be sculptures and a mural mash-up of characters from popular Netflix titles. —Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 June 2024

But at Daily Provisions, the mash-up of its celebrated bacon, egg and cheese sandwich and its cult-favorite maple cruller tastes very, very right. —New York Times, 18 June 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