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How to use bop in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Bop means a very light smack, blow or punch. Example: “She was bopping to the song's drum beats.”

Examples of bop by meaning

verbTo 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

nounA 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

nounA good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.

  • It’s a bop!2022 September 5, Maria Sherman, “The essential Harry Styles song book”, in Rolling Stone UK

nounA 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

verbTo 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

verbTo 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.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)

verbTo have sex.

  • I'm here because your wife and I have been bopping like bunnies.2002, Tim Cockey, The Hearse You Came In On
  • I'll bet you two bopped all night long.” Colin shook his head.2012, Terrence Oral Taylor, Dancing with the Boogie Man, page 196

More sentences with bop

  • Were priests allowed, as Russell had said, to bop the bishop?2017, Lief Wright, Robby the R-Word, →OCLC, page 107. From the entry bop the bishop
  • I thought scat was a form of song, that improvised skibidy bop soo bob stuff.1996 November 22, Jennifer D. Cohoon, “Funniest store names???”, in rec.humor (Usenet). From the entry skibidy
  • Rebop syncopate do the dirty bop, request "Sixty-Minute Man," hear the Shammies, sing the song.1981, Beverly Lowry, Daddy's Girl, page 164. From the entry vampire time
  • Down the Ice Arena we met up with bare mans then Dot came with us and we bopped to the Orchard.2014, Robb Peters, D.A. Diary, Bloomington: AuthorHouse. From the entry mans
  • Each bops the bishop and blows a wad.1996 November, James Hannaham, “Pecs, thighs, and videotape”, in The Village Voice, page 20. From the entry bop the bishop
  • Some YouNowers stoke their viewership by energetically bopping through each session like a rolling Q&A, with each answer giving rise to more questions.2014 October 12, Michael Andor Brodeur, “Me TV: Live broadcasters find their audience online”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 286, number…. From the entry YouNower
  • At 11 you couldn't be a teenager but you could be a bopper, wear bobby socks and bop around and the other boppers would get crushes on you.1999, Susan Holbrook, Misled, page 18. From the entry bopper

Meaning of bop

  1. noun A very light smack, blow or punch.
  2. verb To strike gently or playfully.
  3. noun A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.

Full definition of bop

Questions about bop in a sentence

How do you use bop in a sentence?
Bop is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She was bopping to the song's drum beats.”
What is a short sentence with bop?
“It’s a bop!”
What does bop mean?
Bop means a very light smack, blow or punch.

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