Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To hit or strike.
- n. A blow; a punch.
- n. A post-World War II style of jazz characterized by rhythmic and harmonic complexity, improvised solo performances, and a brilliant style of execution.
- v. To dance or move to the beat of this music.
- v. Slang To go: bopped off to the movies.
Wiktionary
- n. A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
- v. To dance to this music, or indeed any sort of popular music with a strong beat.
- n. onomatopoeia A very light smack, blow or punch.
- v. To gently or playfully strike someone or something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
WordNet 3.0
- v. dance the bebop
- v. hit hard
- n. the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes
- n. an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
Etymologies
- shortened from bebop (Wiktionary)
- Imitative.Short for bebop. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And sometimes my pieces actually have chord changes, though not like in bop — more like a set of bass lines or a general harmonic movement of some kind.”
“Lawmaker: Ban BP from outer continental shelf due to 'lethal' behavior jack wrote: I thought the bop was a last resort ...”
“You could ask the guy who put the 'bop' in the 'bop shoo bop shoo bop' -- who *was* that man?”
“I demand an apology immediately, lest the rest of this blog's posters forever brand you a cretinous misogynist with borderline racist tendenciesyou were very specific in your suggestion that I should "bop" for COLOMBIAN hookers.”
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“P.P.S: The insinuation that I "bop" for hookers of any nationality is both horribly insulting and incredibly crude.”
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“Then she pulled out the flask with brandy in it, and her hand shook so that the spirit splashed about in the flask, and then she took such a gulp, that it went 'bop' in her throat.”
“Bebop, or simply "bop," came about in the 1940s as an attempt to move jazz from its danceable, popular, swing and ragtime origins into the realm of true "musician's music," into a more challenging musical expression combining elements of the avant-garde and heavy improvisation.”
“Four pioneers of modern jazz standing abreast beneath the awning at Minton's Playhouse, the house that "bop" allegedly built.”
“He will probably "bop" his head against your chest a few times, and then start sliding down toward one breast.”
“Of course, using buzzwords like 'bop' certainly do help.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bop’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
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CONT - general terms
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
funky, pedal, bebop, rap, mix, sub, mid, rag, ECM, bpm, bop, Afro and 437 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
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buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 274 more... -
3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Doo-it-yourself Doowop List
Just add a few of these words and phrases together to create your own doowop song.
doo wop, doo, wop, lama, shama, dong, ding, dooooo -wop-wop, shama lama, bom-bom-bom, doo-wop, shang-a-lang and 35 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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On The Road
It's a book by Jack Kerouac
Vague, jalopy, naïve, emaciated, vindicate, hysterical, Obsequious, Schopenhauer, dichotomy, jargon, phosphorescence, lout and 87 more...
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funny words
Words whose sounds amuse me, regardless of meaning.
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