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hotep

Syllables: ho·tep/ˈhəʊ.tɛp/US/ˈhoʊ.tɛp/

hotep noun: a subscriber to Afrocentric conspiracy theories.

Noun (1)

hotep (plural hoteps)

  1. (derogatory, informal) A subscriber to Afrocentric conspiracy theories.
    • Dr. Ben gave me a good laugh. As a matter of fact I saw him at City College several years back with his crowd of 'hoteps'. […] He loves to beat up on the black bourgeios^([sic]) and brought a few light skinned freshman girls to tears. He doesn't conceal his feelings about his ostracism and...1993, Mike Bowen, “Black Intellectuals (was: Re: THE CASE AGAINST RAP MUSIC)”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet)
    • […] and while i'm at it, and i say this out of love for our people, i hope the self-identified “hoteps” and “Pro-Black” people who claim that queerness, trans and nonbinary identities were invented by the west learn from this history and do better […]2016, Khari Jackson, my gender is My Gender, page 9

Noun (2) capitalized: Hotep

Hotep (plural Hoteps)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of hotep.

Forms of hotep

pluralhoteps
alternative formHotep
pluralHoteps

Origin of hotep

From Egyptian Htp:t*p (ḥtp, “to be content, at peace; contentment, peace”), a common element of Ancient Egyptian personal names, with the vowels taken over from its descendant, Coptic ϩⲱⲧⲡ̄ (hōtp̄); Ancient Egypt is the focus of several Afrocentric conspiracy theories.

Questions about hotep

What does hotep mean?
Hotep means a subscriber to Afrocentric conspiracy theories.
What part of speech is hotep?
Hotep is a noun.
How do you pronounce hotep?
Hotep is pronounced /ˈhəʊ.tɛp/ (UK).
What is the plural of hotep?
The plural of hotep is hoteps.

Words near hotep in the dictionary

  1. hotelwide
  2. hotely
  3. hotelys
  4. hotend
  5. hotends
  6. hotep
  7. hoteps
  8. Hotevilla
  9. Hotevilla-Bacavi
  10. Hotez
  11. hotfire test

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