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boppish

boppish adjective: in the bop style.

Adjective

boppish (comparative more boppish, superlative most boppish)

  1. (jazz) In the bop style
    • The strategy of using two standard tunes and two boppish originals on the first session (23 February 1945) set the pattern for subsequent dates.1990, John Chilton, The Song of the Hawk, →ISBN, page 226
    • With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234

Forms of boppish

comparativemore boppish
superlativemost boppish

Origin of boppish

From bop + -ish.

Words formed from boppish

Questions about boppish

What does boppish mean?
Boppish means in the bop style.
What part of speech is boppish?
Boppish is an adjective.

Words near boppish in the dictionary

  1. bopping
  2. bopping around
  3. bopping it up
  4. bopping the bishop
  5. boppings
  6. boppish
  7. boppishly
  8. boppishness
  9. boppist
  10. boppists
  11. Bopps

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