medley
IPA: mˈɛdɫi
noun
- (now rare, archaic) Combat, fighting; a battle.
- 1632, Xenophon, translated by Philemon Holland, Cyrupaedia:
- A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
- (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
- (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
- A cloth of mixed colours.
- A surname.
verb
- (music) To combine, to form a medley.
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Examples of "medley" in Sentences
- The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
- Beck did this so often that comedian Lewis Black strung them together on The Daily Show in what he called a medley of Beck's "Hitler Tourette's Syndrome."
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