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bop
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bop has 2 senses
- bop(n = noun.group) federal bureau of prisons - the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes; Array is a part of department of justice, doj, justice, justice department
- bop(n = noun.communication) bebop - an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940); Array is a kind of jazz
is a kind of law enforcement agency
Derived form verb bop1
Verb bop has 2 senses
- bop(v = verb.motion) bebop - dance the bebop; Array is one way to dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
- bop(v = verb.contact) bash, bonk, sock, whap, whop - hit hard; Array is one way to hit
Derived form noun bop2
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue bop
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bop, n. & v. colloq.
--n.
1 = BEBOP.
2 a a spell of dancing, esp. to pop music. b an organized social occasion for this.
--v.intr. (bopped, bopping) dance, esp. to pop music.
--n.
1 = BEBOP.
2 a a spell of dancing, esp. to pop music. b an organized social occasion for this.
--v.intr. (bopped, bopping) dance, esp. to pop music.
Derivative
bopper n.
bop, v. & n. colloq.
--v.tr. (bopped, bopping) hit, punch lightly.
--n. a light blow or hit.
--v.tr. (bopped, bopping) hit, punch lightly.
--n. a light blow or hit.
Etymology
imit.
THESAURUS
bop
acid rock, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, baloney, bash, bat, bebop, belt, biff, bilge, blah, blah-blah, boogie-woogie, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, country rock, crap, dance music, dances, douse, flapdoodle, folk rock, gas, guff, gup, hard rock, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, hot jazz, jazz, jive, mainstream jazz, malarkey, moonshine, musical suite, piffle, poppycock, pound, rag, ragtime, rhythm-and-blues, rock, rock-and-roll, rot, scat, shit, smack, sock, suite, suite of dances, swing, syncopated music, syncopation, the new music, tommyrot, tripe, whop, wind
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