bebops

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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