HIPHOPとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• hiphop, hip hop

語源

Reduplication of hop.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɪp.hɒp/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɪp.hɑp/

名詞

hip-hop (uncountable)

1. 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. (music) A form of popular and dance music featuring strong percussion and a powerful rhythm, usually accompanied by rapping.
   • 2015 August 9, Jon Caramanica, “Pimp C in a Journalist’s Back Pages”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 1 November 2021:

     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.

派生語

参考

• Appendix:Hip hop slang
• breakdance
• emcee
• graffiti
• rap
• scratch

動詞

hip-hop (third-person singular simple present hip-hops, present participle hip-hopping, simple past and past participle hip-hopped)

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To move by hopping or with a hopping motion.
   • 1939 July 14, The West Australian, Perth, page 6, column 4:

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

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

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

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

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

2. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To perform hip-hop music.
   • 2020, New Jack, Jason Norman, New Jack: Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist, page 108:

     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.