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hotep

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈhəʊ.tɛp/
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/ˈhəʊ.tɛp/ · /ˈhoʊ.tɛp/

Definition of hotep

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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 sometimes it can get rather tedious. But if you have a thousand bucks he'll show you the pyramids the way they are *supposed* to be seen, and things will be happy again.”
    “[…] 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 […]”
    “At least half of the millenials^([sic]) are alt-right. We have the alt-right and the black Hoteps uniting. Jews are on the run.”
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noun

  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 sometimes it can get rather tedious. But if you have a thousand bucks he'll show you the pyramids the way they are *supposed* to be seen, and things will be happy again.”
    “[…] 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 […]”
    “At least half of the millenials^([sic]) are alt-right. We have the alt-right and the black Hoteps uniting. Jews are on the run.”
  2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of hotep.

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Etymology

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.

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