mash up

mash up (something)

1. To crush or smash something into dust or paste. To start, mash up the avocadoes until they are completely smooth, then begin mixing in the tomatoes, onions, and lime juice.
2. To combine two songs or recordings to create a single audio track. He became very popular for the clever way he mashes up classical music and gangster rap.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

mash something up

to crush something into a paste or pieces. Mash the potatoes up and put them in a bowl. Mash up the potatoes and serve them to our guests.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

mash up

v.
1. To combine some recordings to produce a composite recording: The DJ mashed popular songs up. The DJ mashed up two songs by The Beatles. The DJ mashed the popular song up with an old blues song.
2. To mash something completely: The cook mashed up the potatoes. I threw the turnips into a bowl and mashed them up.
See also: mash, up
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • mash up (something)
  • mash with
  • mash
  • mash (something) with (something)
  • smash
  • all to smash
  • stave
  • stave in
  • staves
  • mush (something) up
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Andy and Graham tend to make new mash ups and bootlegs for the night which always go down a treat.
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He analyzes the application of the Supreme Court's Sony Betamax case to such technologies as TiVo, MP3 players, and satellite radio; discusses the litigation brought by the music and motion picture industries against peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa and BitTorrent; and explores challenges to copyright law resulting from the practice of audio and audio-visual "mash ups." He also looks at the development of special protections for technological protection measures, the legal issues surrounding copyright law and Internet search engines, and the emergence of the Creative Commons movement.
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SOME people think Mash ups are lazy and destroy good tracks.
Good beat and worth a listen; SPIN CITY
Campaigners highlight the importance of allowing people to make parodies, to make fair use of material for reviews, to create digital archives of old material or to create "mash ups" from disparate sources, like a musician who uses samples from a number of records to create a new piece of music.
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