Bebop

Quick meaning: Bebop is a noun meaning (music) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.

Meaning

(music) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
2. (informal, intransitive, usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.

Example Sentences

Summer bebopped over, holding a cup of spiked punch in each hand.

Typically one could spot Chet bebopping down the sidewalk in an Amish hat, or hunched over a cafeteria table discussing Calvinism or the Vietnam war.

I can't even say it was the people who board and casually whack off the top of your head with their slung-over-the-shoulder carry-ons as they obliviously bebop down the aisle to locate their seats.

“The studios think we are having a horrible time out here,” said Richard Potter, a screenwriter who made “Strike Dancing,” a YouTube video showing pickets bebopping in formation to “Play That Funky Music.”

Word Forms

• bebops
• bebopping
• bebopped

Synonyms for bebop

Depending on context, synonyms include bop.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bop, jazz, postbop, punk-jazz, boogie, jazzstep.

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