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bopper noun- a fighter, especially a gang fighter US
- You’re not only expected to talk like a bopper, but to think like one, too. — Morton Cooper, High School Confidential, p. 13, 1958
- I owed them nine more years, which they’d probably make me do if I joined up with the boppers. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 282, 1967
- Annette smiled and turned to face the crowd: high-school and college dropouts, ex-Muslims, cons, boppers and bullshit hustlers with their dates[.] — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 4, 1969
- a song in the style of bebop jazz US
- Fifteen years ago he got caught with very little of what Charlie Parker and Dizzy were doing, and until he began recording boppers fast, he lost some bread as modern jazz became moderately popular. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 110, 1965
- a preteen or young teenager US
An abbreviation of TEENYBOPPER- Mobs of boppers would subway into Times Square at school break to purchase fake I.D.’s. — Josh Friedman, When Sex Was Dirty, p. 13, 2005
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