chap-hop

noun

A parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English gentlemanly stereotypes.

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Meanings

nounchap-hop (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentA parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English gentlemanly stereotypes.

    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
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    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

    […] 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

Origin

Blend of chap + hip-hop.

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chap-hop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chap-hop

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“chap-hop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chap-hop. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chap-hop,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chap-hop.

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