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hiplife

noun

Etymology

Blend of hip-hop + highlife.

  1. derived from *leyp-✻ — “to stick, glue”
  2. inherited from *lībą✻ — “life, body”
  3. inherited from *līb✻
  4. inherited from līf
  5. inherited from lyf
  6. compounded as highlife — “high + life”
  7. compounded as hiplife — “hip-hop + highlife”

Definitions

  1. A Ghanaian style of music that fuses highlife and hip-hop.

    • Up the block at Nananom, a tiny music and sundries store, all the hiplife CDs were sold out.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA