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boop

/buːp/

boop noun: a low-pitched beeping sound.

boop: a low-pitched beeping sound
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Noun

boop (plural boops)

  1. A low-pitched beeping sound.
    • When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever.1989, Keith Peterson, The Trapdoor
    • Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. And to suggest that the rhythms laid down by a^([sic]) electronic drummer were anything close to swingin' was humorous.2008, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies, page 281
  2. (colloquial) A gentle or playful tap or strike, especially on the nose.
    • “Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose!” “He's bypassing our shields. We can't take many more boops.” “Thanks to Father giving me full access to Starfleet data systems, I know all possible shield frequencies. Boop!”2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (9:19 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Badgey (Jack McBrayer)

Verb

boop (third-person singular simple present boops, present participle booping, simple past and past participle booped)

  1. (intransitive) To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
    • The music on “LP” is almost entirely unnatural, booping and puffing, buzzing and ticking in tones no acoustic instrument would make.2009 July 20, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully; to bop (especially on the nose).
    • He spun around and booped me on the nose.2013, Kate Danley, Maggie on the Bounty

Proper noun capitalized: Boop

Boop (plural Boops)

  1. A surname from German.

Examples of boop in a sentence

  • Guitars riffle precise chords and lilt through arpeggios, keyboards go boop, and every flick of a drumbeat is in place.2008 January 28, Jon Pareles, Nate Chinen, Kelefa Sanneh, Ben Ratliff, Ben Allison, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
  • Artistes,” with its drumstick-clicking beat, electro boops and dance-rock chorus.2008 April 20, Jon Pareles, “Rasps, Boops, Snark and Sartre”, in New York Times:

Forms of boop

Noun
pluralboops
Verb
third-person singular presentboops
present participlebooping
past participlebooped
pastbooped
Proper noun
pluralBoops

Plural of boop: boops

Origin of boop

Imitative; compare beep.

Altered form of German Bub.

Phrases with boop

Words that rhyme with boop

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Questions about boop

What does boop mean?
Boop means a low-pitched beeping sound.
How do you use boop in a sentence?
Guitars riffle precise chords and lilt through arpeggios, keyboards go boop, and every flick of a drumbeat is in place.
What part of speech is boop?
Boop can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce boop?
Boop is pronounced /buːp/.
What is the plural of boop?
The plural of boop is boops.

Words near boop in the dictionary

  1. Boonstra
  2. Boonstras
  3. Boontling
  4. Boonton
  5. Boonville
  6. boop
  7. boopable
  8. boopableness
  9. booped
  10. boopie
  11. boopies

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