sentence mix

verb

To rearrange words and sounds in a speech recording as to change its meaning, usually for humorous purposes.

Meanings

verbsentence mix (third-person singular simple present sentence mixes, present participle sentence mixing, simple past and past participle sentence mixed)

present singular third person sentence mixes · participle present sentence mixing · participle past sentence mixed · past sentence mixed · alternative sentence-mix

  1. InternettransitiveTo rearrange words and sounds in a speech recording as to change its meaning, usually for humorous purposes.

    It owes its existence to a feral culture of internet goblins who sentence-mixed the same few janky cutscenes for years.

    2023 July 13, Harvey Randall, “The internet shitposted too close to the sun, and now we're getting a spiritual successor to the most cursed Zelda games of all time”, in PC Gamer
    2 more examples

    Well, someone went through the effort of making a text file transcript of Dennis Prager videos (for the convenience of YTPers looking for particular phrases to sentence-mix, so they didn't have to sit through all of the neocon BS just to find a clip).

    2021 May 21, u/SilverWolfMD, Reddit

    They may contain random chopping, extremely loud audio manipulation, sentence mixing/word splicing, visual jokes, colorful and eye-popping visual effects, and other things all put together to make a video interesting, funny, confusing, or even intentionally annoying.

    2023 August 24, Travis Boylls, “How to Make a YouTube Poop”, in WikiHow
nounsentence mix (plural sentence mixes)

plural sentence mixes · alternative sentence-mix

  1. InternetA piece of media resulting from sentence mixing.

    I loved hearing the rhymes and the character in this song, it's one of the best sentence mixes I've heard.

    2014 June 21, u/SlayerOfCupcakes, Reddit

Origin

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APA

sentence mix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sentence%20mix

MLA

“sentence mix.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sentence%20mix. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sentence mix,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sentence%20mix.

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