Bop

/bɒp/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (colloquial, onomatopoeia) A very light smack, blow or punch.
2. (colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully.
3. (uncountable, music) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
4. (slang, countable) A good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.
5. (countable) A casual party with dancing; a disco.
6. (countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.
7. To dance to music with a marked beat.
8. (informal, ambitransitive) To walk casually; to stroll.

Example Sentences

“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.

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.

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!

[…] their first kiss during the school bop, with Paul Weller singing “You're the Best Thing” and everything tingling from her toes up […]

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.

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

She was bopping to the song's drum beats.

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

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• bops
• bopping
• bopped

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