Chap-hop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chap-hop is a noun meaning (music) A parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English gentlemanly stereotypes.
Meaning
(music) A parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English gentlemanly stereotypes.
Example Sentences
Never wear plimsolls if not doing sport Unless you're a chap-hop superstar sort
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.
[…] 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).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hippity-hop, hip hopster, jazz-hop, triphop, hippety-hop, hip hop.
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