bebop
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈbiːbɒp/
bebop (uncountable)
- (music genre) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.
- French: be-bop
- Russian: бибо́п
bebop (bebops, present participle bebopping; past and past participle bebopped)
- (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
- (intransitive, usually, with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.
- 1986, Steve Estes, Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman, Slain by Terrorists, Zondervan Publishing Company (ISBN 9780310283812)
- 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.
- 2001, Patsy Clairmont, The Best Devotions of Patsy Clairmont, Zondervan Publishing Company (ISBN 9780310241744)
- 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.
- 2013, Beth Kendrick, The Week Before the Wedding, Penguin (ISBN 9781101613757)
- Summer bebopped over, holding a cup of spiked punch in each hand.
- 1986, Steve Estes, Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman, Slain by Terrorists, Zondervan Publishing Company (ISBN 9780310283812)
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