English
Etymology
Blend of chap + hip-hop.
Noun
chap-hop (uncountable)
- (music) A parodic musical genre that blends elements of hip-hop with steampunk and traditional English stereotypes.
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).