bop

• IPA^(key): /bɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Imitative of the sound made.

bop (plural bops)

1. (colloquial, onomatopoeia) A very light smack, blow or punch.

bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)

1. (colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully.
   • 2013, Karin Tanabe, The List, page 37:

     “Better him than me,” I said while my mother fluttered her blue eyes at me and bopped me on the nose with a wooden spoon.

• bip, boop

• bop the bishop

Shortened from bebop.

bop (countable and uncountable, plural bops)

1. (uncountable, music) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, OCLC 43419454:

     That grand wild sound of bop floated from beer parlors; it mixed medleys with every kind of cowboy and boogie-woogie in the American night.

2. (slang, countable) A good song.
   • 2022 September 5, Maria Sherman, “The essential Harry Styles song book”, in Rolling Stone UK‎:

     In the later years of One Direction, especially those after the departure of Zayn Malik, the boy band morphed into the vintage pop-rock group of their (well, let’s be real, Harry’s) dreams. ‘What a Feeling’ feels prescient: its Fleetwood Mac style structure laid the groundwork for Styles’ future endeavours. It’s a bop!

3. (countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.
   • 2005, Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University, page 472:

     Theatres; Music House used for bands; May Ball; very popular weekly bops in JCR and MCR; library (57,000 books); 40 networked PCs, 24-hrs.

   • 2012, Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, page 120:

     At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.

bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)

1. To dance to this music, or any sort of music with a marked beat.
   • 2019 February 17, Chris Mench, “Blueface Wants People To Pay Attention To His Lyrics, Not Just Bop To His Music”, in Genius News‎:

     I’d rather you be stiff with a stuck look on your face than just bopping, not even listening to what a nigga saying.

   • 2020 October 8, Tall Boy Special (lyrics and music), “Clothes”‎:

     The hat was sorta dancing, just bopping around
     Floating in the air six feet above the ground

Variant of whop (“to move around quickly with an impact”) as well as from the dances above interpreted as a manner of locomotion.

bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)

1. (slang, MLE, transitive, intransitive) To walk the streets while socializing.
   • 2019 July 31, Aitch (lyrics), “Taste (Make It Shake)”‎:

     I'm just bopping, give a fuck who's in the place

     In the music video around this line, he is walking on road and barely dancing.

2. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To have sex.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate

   • 2002, Tim Cockey, The Hearse You Came In On:

     I'm here because your wife and I have been bopping like bunnies. Here are the pictures to prove it.

   • 2012, Taylor, Terrence Oral, Dancing with the Boogie Man, page 196:

     […] You aren't the Boy Scout you pretend to be. I'll bet you two bopped all night long.” Colin shook his head. “You're wrong. We didn't.” “You just took her home?” “That's about it.”

3. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To fellate.
   • 2016 June 28, Loski (lyrics), “Hazards”‎, performed by Loski, 2:39:

     Squa' said she just done the 6, now she on the ends just boppin' (Bad, she bad)
     Now she on the ends just boppin (Boppin')

     The rapper's gestures do not leave room for ambiguity.

• BPO, OBP, PBO

Unadapted borrowing from English bop.

• IPA^(key): /bɔp/

bop c (uncountable)

1. (jazz) bebop

• bop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• IPA^(key): /bɔp/

bop

1. Soft mutation of pop.