In music, sampling is the reuse of a portion of a sound recording in another recording.

Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, sounds, or entire bars of music, and may be layered, equalized, sped up or slowed down, repitched, looped, or otherwise manipulated.
wow, ava max really sampled around the world for her song my head & heart!!!!
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1. Sex, especially without caressing, coercion, cuddling or foreplay.

2. A piece of pussy.

3. A piece of dick.

4. A quickie.
This can also be expressed as "a sample."
by Mr. Terrence L. Trezvant March 15, 2006
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the process of taking brief segments of sound (from a song, movie or elsewhere) and using that sound to form another sound or musical piece.
Kanye West is known for sampling soul songs from the 70's and 80's.
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To get bailed on or stood up
Eric: Weren't you supposed to go to the movies with her last night?

Mike: Yeah, I was but i got sampled.

Eric: Again? Ouch
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When one is dominated in such a manner that it creates a supernova; a free ownage upon others
Gurndeep Hempsky Jr. was skating down the ice until Spencer checked him into the boards and fucking SAMPLED! him.
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Sampling is an action pop artists and rappers do when they can't come up with an original beat, so they would take an older song and cut it up in certain ways to make it a beat.
The most well-known acts of sampling are "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot being used for "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj, "Dream On" by Aerosmith being used for "Sing For The Moment" by Eminem, "ABC" by the Jackson Five being used for "OPP" by Naughty By Nature and "I'm Coming Out" by Diana Ross used for "Mo Money Mo Problems" by The Notorious B.I.G.
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The history of sampling comes from African Americans who gave up on their cultural history on playing wonderful music and began to steal other people's music to claim it as there’s.

- The act of stealing music to claim as your own.
When people told him he was sampling good music, he got excited and considered himself a great producer.
by Pete Rock July 15, 2004
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