English
bop
see also: BOP, Bop
Pronunciation Noun

bop (plural bops)

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

bop (bops, present participle bopping; past and past participle bopped)

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully.
Synonyms Noun

bop

  1. (uncountable) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
  2. (countable, UK, Oxbridge slang) A party.
  3. (slang, countable) A good song.
Verb

bop (bops, present participle bopping; past and past participle bopped)

  1. To dance to this music, or any sort of popular music with a strong beat.
  2. (slang, intransitive) To have sex.
Synonyms
BOP
Noun

bop (plural bops)

  1. (oil industry) Initialism of blowout preventer
  2. Initialism of Bureau of Prisons
Proper noun
  1. Initialism of Boy's Own Paper
    • 1939, George Orwell, "Coming up for Air", London: Victor Gollancz. (p. 46 in Penguin edition 1962.)
      […] and myself under the table with the B.O.P., making believe that the tablecloth is a tent.
  2. Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac
Bop
Proper noun
  1. (informal) Bophuthatswana


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