brostep

English

Etymology

Blend of bro +‎ dubstep

Noun

brostep (uncountable)

1. (music, originally derogatory) A harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.
   • 2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash‎^[1], new and revised edition, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

     In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity.

   • 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers:

     By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]

Hyponyms

• briddim
• tearout brostep

See also

• bro-country

Anagrams

• probest, besport, stepbro