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bop

UK/bɒp/US/bɑp/

bop noun: a very light smack, blow or punch.

Noun (1)

bop (plural bops)

  1. (colloquial, onomatopoeic) A very light smack, blow or punch.

Verb (1)

bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully.
    • “Better him than me,” I said while my mother fluttered her blue eyes at me and bopped me on the nose with a wooden spoon.2013, Karin Tanabe, The List, page 37
    Synonyms:
    bip, boop

Noun (2)

bop (countable and uncountable, plural bops)

  1. (uncountable) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
    • That grand wild sound of bop floated from beer parlors; it mixed medleys with every kind of cowboy and boogie-woogie in the American night.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC
  2. (countable, slang) A good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.
    • In the later years of One Direction, especially those after the departure of Zayn Malik, the boy band morphed into the vintage pop-rock group of their (well, let’s be real, Harry’s) dreams. ‘What a Feeling’ feels prescient: its Fleetwood Mac style structure laid the groundwork for Styles’ future...2022 September 5, Maria Sherman, “The essential Harry Styles song book”, in Rolling Stone UK
  3. (countable) A casual party with dancing; a disco.
    • […] their first kiss during the school bop, with Paul Weller singing “You're the Best Thing” and everything tingling from her toes up […]2012, Barbara Claypole White, The Unfinished Garden, page 308
  4. (countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.
    • Theatres; Music House used for bands; May Ball; very popular weekly bops in JCR and MCR; library (57,000 books); 40 networked PCs, 24-hrs.2005, Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University, page 472
    • At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.2012, Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, page 120

Verb (2)

bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)

  1. To dance to music with a marked beat.
    • She was bopping to the song's drum beats.
    • I’d rather you be stiff with a stuck look on your face than just bopping, not even listening to what a nigga saying.2019 February 17, Chris Mench, “Blueface Wants People To Pay Attention To His Lyrics, Not Just Bop To His Music”, in Genius News

Verb (3)

bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To walk casually; to stroll.
    • "I bopped down to take Charlie out for a surprise lunch, but he's out at the warehouse doing something with somebody or something. So I'm letting you take me to lunch."2011, S. E. Finken, Near Misses, page 199
    • I'm just bopping, give a fuck who's in the place2019 July 31, “Taste (Make It Shake)”, Aitch (lyrics)
  2. (ambitransitive, slang) To have sex.
    • I'm here because your wife and I have been bopping like bunnies. Here are the pictures to prove it.2002, Tim Cockey, The Hearse You Came In On
    • […] You aren't the Boy Scout you pretend to be. I'll bet you two bopped all night long.” Colin shook his head. “You're wrong. We didn't.” “You just took her home?” “That's about it.”2012, Terrence Oral Taylor, Dancing with the Boogie Man, page 196
    Synonyms:
    approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations
  3. (ambitransitive, slang) To fellate.
    • Squa' said she just done the 6, now she on the ends just boppin' (Bad, she bad)
      Now she on the ends just boppin (Boppin')2016 June 28, “Hazards”, Loski (lyrics)performed by Loski, 2:39

Noun (3)

bop (plural bops)

  1. (offensive, slang) A promiscuous woman, especially in the context of having a high body count or giving fellatio to many men.
    • Influencers on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and streaming sites […] dispense warnings about bops (those with many sexual partners), exegesis on the importance of body count (the number of people someone has slept with) and the dangers of simping (being excessively attentive or submissive to an...2026 March 3, Christine Emba, “The Reason Gen Z Isn’t Dating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2026
  2. (offensive, slang, social media) A woman who posts erotic content for money.
    • […] [Piper Rockelle] says she makes TikToks telling younger fans not to follow her on to OnlyFans, “deinfluencing” them from becoming a bop (a woman who posts erotic content for money) or a “mattress actress” (an adult content creator).2026 May 28, Amelia Gentleman, “The strange surveilled life of Piper Rockelle: why did a former child influencer decide to go on OnlyFans?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28...

Noun (4) capitalized: BOP

BOP (plural BOPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, oil industry) Initialism of blowout preventer.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of burden of proof.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: BOP

BOP

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.
    • […] and myself under the table with the B.O.P., making believe that the tablecloth is a tent.1939, George Orwell, "Coming up for Air", London: Victor Gollancz. (p. 46 in Penguin edition 1962.)
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.
    • "To be frank, at first I thought it was a joke," Hugh Hurwitz, who served as acting director of the BOP between May 2018 and August 2019, told the BBC.2025 July 17, Bernd Debusmann Jr, “Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a prison - could it happen?”, in BBC

Proper noun (2) capitalized: BoP

BoP

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Board of Peace.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Bop

Bop

  1. (informal) Bophuthatswana

bop meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

bop in Hindi

बॉप, बोप, बीओपी

bop in Marathi

बॉप, बोप, बॉप करण्यासाठी

bop in Urdu

بوپ

bop in Bengali

বপ, বোপ, বোপ করার জন্য
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bop in Telugu
బోప్ చేయడానికి, బోప్
bop in Malayalam
ബോപ് ചെയ്യാൻ
bop in Kannada
ಬೋಪ್ ಮಾಡಲು
bop in Punjabi
ਬੋਪ, ਬੀ. ਓ. ਪੀ, ਬੌਪ
bop in Gujarati
બોપ, બીઓપી, બોપ કરવા માટે
bop in Odia
ବୋପ୍, ବୋପ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ, ବୋପ୍ କରିବାକୁ
bop in Nepali
बोप, बोप गर्न

Examples of bop in a sentence

  • Were priests allowed, as Russell had said, to bop the bishop?
  • I thought scat was a form of song, that improvised skibidy bop soo bob stuff.
  • Rebop syncopate do the dirty bop, request "Sixty-Minute Man," hear the Shammies, sing the song.

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Synonyms of bop

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Forms of bop

Noun
pluralbops
pluralBOPs
Verb
third-person singular presentbops
present participlebopping
past participlebopped
pastbopped

Plural of bop: bops

Origin of bop

Imitative of the sound made.

Shortened from bebop.

Variant of whop (“to move around quickly with an impact”) and bob (“to move gently vertically”) as well as from the dances above interpreted as a manner of locomotion.

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Words that rhyme with bop

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Questions about bop

What does bop mean?
Bop means a very light smack, blow or punch.
What is bop in Hindi?
Bop in Hindi is बॉप, बोप, बीओपी. See Bop meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bop?
Bop can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bop?
Bop is pronounced /bɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of bop?
The plural of bop is bops.

Words near bop in the dictionary

  1. boozings
  2. Boozman
  3. boozorium
  4. boozoriums
  5. boozy
  6. bop
  7. bop around
  8. bop it up
  9. bop the bishop
  10. bopeep
  11. bopeeped

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bop (page history and authors); BOP (page history and authors); BoP (page history and authors); Bop (page history and authors); bop (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bop (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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