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bop
1[ bop ]
noun
- Also called bebop. early modern jazz developed in the early 1940s and characterized by often dissonant triadic and chromatic chords, fast tempos and eccentric rhythms, intricate melodic lines punctuated by pop-tune phrases, and emphasizing the inventiveness of soloists. Compare cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
verb (used without object)
- Slang. to move, go, or proceed (often followed by on down ):
Let's bop on down to the party.
bop
2[ bop ]
verb (used with object)
- to strike, as with the fist or a stick; hit.
noun
- a blow.
bop
1/ bɒp /
verb
- tr to strike; hit
noun
- a blow
bop
2/ bɒp /
noun
- a form of jazz originating in the 1940s, characterized by rhythmic and harmonic complexity and instrumental virtuosity Originally calledbebop
- informal.a session of dancing to pop music
verb
- informal.intr to dance to pop music
Derived Forms
- ˈbopper, noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bop1
Origin of bop2
Example Sentences
These people that work for the BOP are not rocket scientists.
Bop had produced self-conscious artists who refused to bow to conventional assumptions of what was entertaining.
He would do a harried married man or an old horse on its last legs or a bop musician named Cool Cees or a whole Italian movie.
Kayleigh Roberts, the online editor of Bop and Tiger Beat, had her own take on the phenomenon.
He gave her permission later in the trial to slap/wallop/hit/punch/smack/bop him again and the result was fantastic.
Once in a while to be sure a head grows a bit too big and then we all take a bop at it!
Strange to say this was not my first linguistic effort, which was, as a matter of fact, the Romany word "bop."
The quota is supposed to be used only in extreme BOP distress.
There is another "p" and an "e" tacked on to Bop, but I have eliminated the unnecessary and call him "Bob" for short.
To “bop” means in the Suffolk dialect “to stoop or bow the head.”
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