hip-hop

alternative hiphop · alternative hip hop

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

   1 more example

   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."

2. uncountableentertainmentA form of popular and dance music featuring strong percussion and a powerful rhythm, usually accompanied by rapping.

   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.

   2015 August 9, Jon Caramanica, “Pimp C in a Journalist’s Back Pages”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2021

present singular third person hip-hops · participle present hip-hopping · participle past hip-hopped · past hip-hopped · alternative hiphop · alternative hip hop

1. informalintransitivetransitiveTo move by hopping or with a hopping motion.

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

   1939 July 14, The West Australian, Perth, page 6, column 4

   2 more examples

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

   1951 April 14, The Advocate, Burnie, page 17, column 4

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

   1971 August 4, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 64, column 4

2. informalintransitivetransitiveTo perform hip-hop music.

   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.

   2020, New Jack, Jason Norman, New Jack: Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist, page 108