brostep

Etymology

From bro + -step.

noun

  1. A harsher-sounding form of dubstep music, influenced by house music and heavy metal.“In a crowded field for negative epithets, brostep was the term that won as a pejorative, the buzzword of a concerted but increasingly futile campaign to mock the masculinist tendency in dubstep out of existence. […] But then, as so often happens, the word began to be embraced as a positive identity.”