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BOP
bop, bebop
(noun) an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash
(verb) hit hard
bop, bebop
(verb) dance the bebop
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Imitative of the sound made.
Noun
bop (plural bops)
(colloquial, onomatopoeia) A very light smack, blow or punch.
Verb
bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)
(colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully.
Synonyms
• bip, boop
Etymology 2
Shortened from bebop.
Noun
bop (countable and uncountable, plural bops)
(uncountable) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
(countable, UK, Oxbridge slang) A party.
(slang, countable) A good song.
Verb
bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)
To dance to this music, or any sort of popular music with a strong beat.
(slang, intransitive) To have sex.
Synonyms
• (to have sex): bang, do it, get it on; see also copulate
Anagrams
• BPO, OBP, PBO
Noun
BOP (plural BOPs)
(oil industry) Initialism of blowout preventer.
Initialism of burden of proof.
Proper noun
BOP
Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.
Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac.
Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.
Anagrams
• BPO, OBP, PBO
Proper noun
Bop
(informal) Bophuthatswana
Anagrams
• BPO, OBP, PBO
Source: Wiktionary
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