Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (music) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.
2. (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
3. (informal, intransitive, usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.

Example Sentences

Six months into their career, the Clash already showed themselves the equal of any rock band that had come before them, simply by assaulting the last frontier of rock mythology: the notion that the rock audience, like some sort of bebopping proletariat, was a receptacle of goodness and hope, and that rock 'n' roll offered redemption.

“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.”

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.

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

Word Forms

• bebops
• bebopping
• bebopped

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