Bop

Quick meaning: Bop is a noun meaning (colloquial, onomatopoeia) A very light smack, blow or punch.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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.

“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.

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

Word Forms

• bops
• bopping
• bopped

Synonyms for bop

Depending on context, synonyms include bip, boop, approach, cohabit, common, company.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include whap, bash, bonk, whop, sock, bebop.

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