chap-hop
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English gentlemanly stereotypes.
Uncountable
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)."