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hardbop

hardbop is the alternative form of hard bop.

Meaning of hard bop

Noun

hard bop (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of jazz music that extends bebop with influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues.

Questions about hardbop

What is hardbop the alternative form of?
Hardbop is the alternative form of hard bop.

Words near hardbop in the dictionary

  1. hardbody
  2. hardboil
  3. hardboiled
  4. hardboot
  5. hardboots
  6. hardbop
  7. hardbottom
  8. hardbottoms
  9. hardbought
  10. hardbound
  11. hardcase

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hardbop (page history and authors); hard bop (page history and authors). 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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