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Meaning of bop in English

bop
verb
uk
/bɒp/ us
/bɑːp/
-pp-

bop verb (DANCE)

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[ I ] informal
to dance to pop music:
They were all bopping to the music.
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Dance & choreography
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bop verb (HIT)

[ T usually + adv/prep ] humorous
to hit someone or something, especially in a friendly way:
to bop someone on the head
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Hitting and beating
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bop
noun
uk
/bɒp/ us
/bɑːp/

bop noun (MUSIC)

[ U ]
(also bebop)
a type of jazz music first played by small groups in the 1940s
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Jazz & blues
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bop noun (DANCE)

[ C usually singular ] mainly UK
a dance to pop music:
There are a couple of decent clubs where you can go for a bop.
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Related word

boppy
(Definition of bop from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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bop
verb [ T ]
  infml
us
/bɑp/
-pp-

bop verb [T] (HIT)

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to hit something lightly, not hard:
The ball bounced up and bopped him on the nose.
bop
noun
us
/bɑp/

bop noun (HIT)

[ C ]
a light hit:
I got a bop on the head.

bop noun (MUSIC)

[ U ]
(also bebop, us/ˈbi·bɑp/)
a type of jazz from the 1940s that has complicated rhythms and is often played fast
(Definition of bop from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bop

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From even that short perspective, several things about bop had become clearer.
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Notably, the students and staff composed all the material on which the improvisations were based, including the bop piece.
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His ultimate commitment to bop practice represents the culmination of numerous stylistic choices made over the course of many years of musical activity.
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By the 1960s, bop had become the new jazz orthodoxy and would subsequently be opposed to ' free jazz' and, later, fusion.
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Reserved for post-bop players, it signifies contempt for the apparent unwillingness, or inability to play bebop.
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I am aware that it is misleading, particularly in hard bop and post bop jazz, to conceive or 'hear' melody and harmony in this 'either-or' way.
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The values advanced are those of a culture of spontaneity embodied in ' ' spontaneous bop prosody, ' ' emphasising the possibilities of action and interraction within established corporate structures.
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The social worker refused to detain the patient, who then went outside and bopped the social worker on the head.
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They are bopping the counties that they do not like.
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Bop could survive without that, but it says that if the money is there it might as well have it.
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It will prevent fraud in the importation of foreign bops, and will not in any way go beyond that.
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I must correct my bop.
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Bebop was developed in the early and mid-1940s, later evolving into styles like hard bop and free jazz.
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During the bop era, more highly developed vocal improvisation surged in popularity.
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The sh closely resembles the sound of brushes, common in the bop era, on drum heads; the ah vowel resonates similarly to the bass drum.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
跳舞, （隨流行音樂）跳舞, 打…
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跳舞, （随流行音乐）跳舞, 打…
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bailar, baile…
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