hip hop

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   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. 2
   noun

   A 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.

3. 3
   verb

   To move by hopping or with a hopping motion.

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

4. 4
   verb

   To 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.

5. 5
   noun

   genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment

6. 6
   noun

   an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city

Etymology

Reduplication of hop.