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bebopped

bebopped is the simple past and past participle of bebop.

Meaning of bebop

Verb

bebop (third-person singular simple present bebops, present participle bebopping, simple past and past participle bebopped)

  1. (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
    • Six months into their career, the Clash already showed themselves the equal of any rock band that had come before them, simply by assaulting the last frontier of rock mythology: the notion that the rock audience, like some sort of bebopping proletariat, was a receptacle of goodness and hope, and...1988 September 2, Bill Wyman, “Terms of interment: retrospecting the Ramones and the Clash”, in Chicago Reader
  2. (informal, intransitive, usually) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.
    • 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.1986, Steve Estes, Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman, Slain by Terrorists, Zondervan Publishing Company, →ISBN

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Questions about bebopped

What is bebopped the simple past and past participle of?
Bebopped is the simple past and past participle of bebop.

Words near bebopped in the dictionary

  1. beblur
  2. Beboid
  3. bebonneted
  4. bebooted
  5. bebop
  6. bebopped
  7. bebopper
  8. beboppers
  9. bebopping
  10. bebops
  11. bebother

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