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bop noun- a dance; any dance to popular music UK
Derives from bebop (a jazz genre first recorded in 1945). - like an Old Testament prophet having a bop at a disco — The Guardian, 17 November 2001
- Lady Helen promised she would be “having a bit of a bop”. — Daily Telegraph, 5 March 2002
- a dance party US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 16, 1973
- liveliness, spirit, rhythm US
- My father also didn’t want any of us to be cool. “I noticed when you walked in here you had a little bop in your walk. No bopping around here.” — Chris Rock, Rock This!, p. 45, 1997
- a member of a youth gang US
- Heart, as the bop defines it, is audacity, devil-may-care disregard for self and consequences. — Harrison E. Salisbury, The Shook-up Generation, p. 25, 1958
- But the alienation of the Negro poor is such that the “hustler” or “bop” or unwed ADC mother, the members of the “deviant subculture,” often respond with an attitude of “include me out.” — Kenneth Clark, Dark Ghetto, p. 49, 1965
- a blow; a punch US, 1932
- — Nino Culotta, Cop This Lot, 1960
- phencyclidine, the recreational drug known as PCP or angel dust US
- — Maria Hinojas, Crews, p. 166, 1995
- nonsense US, 1973
- “Yeah, you talk all that off the wall bop,” Roger stammered. — Joseph Nazel, Black Cop, p. 104, 1974
- a youth gang fight US
- Third is a “bop.” That can be a small group, five, ten, twenty guys from one team, having it out with the same number from a different team. — Lewis Yablonsky, The Violent Gang, p. 78, 1962
▶ on the bop involved in youth gang activity US- On the bop—on the prowl for street brawling. — William Bernard, Jailbait, p. 81, 1949
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