Meaning of mash-up in English:

mash-up

Translate mash-up into Spanish

noun

1 informal A mixture or fusion of disparate elements.
- ‘the film becomes a weird mash-up of 1950s western and 1970s TV cop show’
- ‘Eating in the 21st century is part travel, part cultural mash-up.’
- ‘Poetic License, Erika Batdorf's one-woman mash-up of dance and monologue, begins with such a wonderful opening half-hour that it feels surly to complain about the rest.’
- ‘The forthcoming novel is the first mainstream "mash-up" of Austen and horror, two of the most popular film genres of the past decade.’
- ‘Burton has forsaken the Alice narrative for a postmodern mash-up, but his hallucinogenic humour stays true to the original’
- ‘Another genre exercise, Roy Colt and Winchester Jack plays like a mash up of Gunsmoke and The Dukes of Hazzard.’
- ‘By the luck of the draw, or maybe the opposite, she has been assigned another celebrity mash-up.’
- ‘But that makes sense when your reigning ethical theory is some weird mash up of utilitarianism and consequentialism, with a dash of fundamentalism for coloring.’
- ‘A fabulous mashup of art and public opinion.’
- ‘The film is a mash-up of complex, old school conspiracy thrillers like The Parallax View and slicker contemporary fare like Enemy of the State.’
- ‘Bebop hangs much of its hip attitude on presenting a mash-up of American movie genres and cultural fragments in general.’
- ‘The very thing that aesthetes complain about, the wild mash-up of comic books with other products, becomes one of the strengths of the show.’
- ‘They assume that what's to come will be a perfect mashup of what they think was good about the old and what they think is good about the new.’
- ‘New York writer Ben Greenman has created a new twist on the literary mashup with Celebrity Chekhov, his adaptation of Russian master Anton Chekhov's short stories.’
- ‘So when Quirk books announced their mashup of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in early 2009, I, like the rest of the Internet, was ecstatic.’
- ‘In fact, the town of Arcadia where we stayed was an interesting mashup of chain restaurants galore and "real" homegrown businesses in downtown.’
- ‘So when Quirk books announced their mashup of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in early 2009, I, like the rest of the Internet, was ecstatic.’
- ‘In fact, the town of Arcadia where we stayed was an interesting mashup of chain restaurants galore and "real" homegrown businesses in downtown.’
- ‘The unnamed alpine-dwelling species of the butterfly genus Lycaeide appears to be a genetic mashup of two known species - Lycaeides melissa and Lycaeides idas - according to a new study.’
1. 1.1A musical track comprising the vocals of one recording placed over the instrumental backing of another.
  ‘a classic dancefloor mash-up’
  ‘Even something like mash-ups, where people take two pop songs and blend them together, can be seen as a kind of exercise in constrained creativity.’
  ‘That's why mash-ups, named after hip-hop mixes of two or more songs, are starting to rock.’
  ‘It spent nearly three years trying to clear the rights to all the records it intended to use on a mash-ups album.’
  ‘People loved mash-ups because when you put two old songs together, you get a third song.’
  ‘Whereas most mash-ups are simple remixes that DJs have been doing for decades, this DJ is doing something fresh here, taking the art of the remix to a whole new level.’
  ‘But the pressure is there: sites offering mash-ups come and go, often because web servers shut them down for fear of hosting bait for litigious record labels.’
  ‘The site doesn't have a good search tool yet, but it's a tremendous start on something much needed-and probably soon to be the basis for some cool mash-ups!’
  ‘The main reason why these mash-ups work in the first place, though, is that they aren't the focal point of the mix.’
  ‘The result is certainly interesting - a high-end mash-up.’
  ‘Now we come to the culture of the remix taken to its ultimate end: the mash-up.’
  ‘In between all this there's still time to pay respect to world fusion and the usual beaty mash-ups that we've come to expect from our Scanadinavian friends.’
  ‘Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.’
  ‘I have a suspicion that in this world of mash-ups and super smart musical collages, we're going to see a lot more stuff like this, or at least a lot more stuff that's trying to be like this…’
  ‘I would however, find that starting from a blank slate is far, far too much effort - and would end up resorting to bootlegging / mash-ups etc.’
  ‘Mixing records isn't making music, and any DJ who thinks mash-ups or whatever is making music is simply kidding themselves.’
  ‘In addition, you can sample portions of these songs for use in your own compositions, whether they are mash-ups for your friends, or a commercial release.’
  ‘We've been doing bootlegs / mash-ups for a few years now.’
  ‘No matter what your opinion of it, however, it's still worth checking out for the moments when the mash-ups really do work.’
  ‘Much of this stems from the loose, funky feel and scatty genre mash-ups.’
  ‘This poignant and fun feature will show you how, in just four days, they created, rehearsed, recorded and ultimately performed the songs that make up the ultimate mash-up album.’
2. 1.2Computing A web page or application created by combining data or functionality from different sources.
  ‘a mash-up which mixes BBC news with links to Wikipedia articles’
  ‘I feel like I've stumbled into the newest hybrid, the blog mash-up, a combination listening post/fanzine/music criticism/record store.’
  ‘They could extract information such as age and location of the commenters in this thread to do some interesting mash-ups showing supporter distribution by age and state.’
  ‘Here is a terrific mash-up opportunity that you'd think would have been written back when gas was $2 per gallon.’
  ‘Here's a critique of a recent Web 2.0 mash-up for those who like to analyze tech from a social-consequences perspective.’
  ‘The content uploading appears to rely only on Microsoft technology, a mash-up of Active-X and Sharepoint.’
  ‘Another option is to combine free online services to create "mash-ups" of multiple data sources, although this may require some technical nous.’
  ‘The first mash-ups were map-based, and it's led to an over-reliance on location for data-driven projects.’
  ‘He points to really useful services built with mash-ups of separate councils' services, such as Fixmystreet.com’
  ‘"The mashup can be linked to 911 calls, to tell emergency services what kind of building they are walking into," he said.’
  ‘The longest stretch I do now is 10 km, which turned out to be the distance of my Jericho Beach run once I mapped it with this cool Google Maps mashup.’
  ‘Selena told me about ononemap.com, a Google Maps mashup which enables you to find sales and lettings information for properties anywhere in the country.’
  ‘It seems like someone could do a mashup of Wikipedia, a dictionary, and a little other online content and have a pretty popular site.’
  ‘Demand Media is in the process of doing a mashup between domain parking and social networking that is nothing if not devilishly brilliant.’
  ‘Google is also introducing a "mashup" service today that will enable Internet users to import Street View panoramas from particular streets or neighborhoods to their own websites or blogs.’
  ‘What Earth Album does is take these two giant internet properties and link them together in what's called a mashup.’
  ‘It's no accident Google Maps was the first widely used mashup API.’
  ‘For example, you could write a google maps mashup for finding local businesses that uses an identicon for each business type.’
  ‘You can see all of the candidates campaign appearances in a Google Maps mashup and even download their calendar.’
  ‘Watch edits to the English Wikipedia happen almost real-time on a map with Wikipediavision, a neat dynamically-updating Google Maps mashup.’