chap-hop

English

Etymology

Blend of chap +‎ hip-hop

Noun

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).