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bopper

noun/ˈbɒpəɹ/

What It Means

A person who dances the bop.

A musician who plays the bop genre.

A teenybopper.

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Bopper in Context

“[…] teeny-bopper long before I hit 11. 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

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Did You Know?

From bop + -er.

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