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

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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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