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high quality rip

high quality rip noun: a musical composition, which is presented as unaltered music taken from a video game or occasionally other media, but is instead a mashup of the advertised music with another composition in a humorous or unexpected way.

Noun

high quality rip (plural high quality rips)

  1. (Internet) A musical composition, which is presented as unaltered music taken from a video game or occasionally other media, but is instead a mashup of the advertised music with another composition in a humorous or unexpected way.
    • High-Quality Rip: It started as a joke that you play an original song from a game but suddenly the melody turns to something else.2016 May 23, @hideki_naganuma [Hideki Naganuma], Twitter (post)
    • I'm frantically looking for the high quality rip that appears as genuine beware the forest's mushroom but has I was never book smart2023 November 22, @cametek [Camellia], X (post)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high-quality, rip.

Forms of high quality rip

pluralhigh quality rips

Origin of high quality rip

Coined by SiIvaGunner in 2016 (then known as "GiIvaSunner"), a YouTube channel which produces mashed up video game music, in reference to the video game music rips they were inauthentically presented as. It emerged from a repeated tongue-in-cheek response to commenters who pointed out that the music was edited or otherwise dislikeable, typically in the form of "I only upload high quality video game rips". The word is primarily associated with the channel, but can refer to such music produced by others.

Questions about high quality rip

What does high quality rip mean?
High quality rip means a musical composition, which is presented as unaltered music taken from a video game or occasionally other media, but is instead a mashup of the advertised music with another composition in a humorous or unexpected way.
What part of speech is high quality rip?
High quality rip is a noun.
What is the plural of high quality rip?
The plural of high quality rip is high quality rips.

Words near high quality rip in the dictionary

  1. high probability trade
  2. high probability trades
  3. high profile
  4. high profiles
  5. High Prussian
  6. high quality rip
  7. High Range
  8. high relief
  9. high reliefs
  10. High Renaissance
  11. High Rhine

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