Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city;
2.
genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment;
several forms of rap have emerged;
[syn: rap, rap music, hip-hop]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hip-hop
n 1: an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the
fashions of African-American residents of the inner city
2: genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in
which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment;
several forms of rap have emerged [syn: rap, rap music,
hip-hop]