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chap-hop

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Etymology

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Blend of chap +‎ hip-hop

Noun

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chap-hop (uncountable)

  1. (music) A parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English stereotypes.
    • 2010, Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer (lyrics and music), “Hail the Chap”, in I Say!, performed by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer:
      Never wear plimsolls if not doing sport
      Unless you're a chap-hop superstar sort
    • 2013, Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller, Steaming into a Victorian Future, page 90:
      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.
    • 2016, Max Décharné, Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang:
      [] 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).