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chap-hop en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of chap + hip-hop.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English gentlemanly stereotypes.
    • Any style of music can become steampunk if the story is right. Thus the rise of a seemingly incongruous pairing: steampunk rap, or chap-hop. 2013, Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller, Steaming into a Victorian Future, page 90:
    • Never wear plimsolls if not doing sport Unless you're a chap-hop superstar sort 2010, Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer, “Hail the Chap”, in I Say!, performed by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer:
    • […] the compliment has now been returned, with the rise of a style known as chap-hop, in which people in tweeds such as Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer freestyle over a banjulele accompaniment barbed songs of political comment such as 'They Don't Allow Rappers in the Bullingdon' (2012). 2016, Max Décharné, Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang: