bop

Clipping of English Bonkiman with p as a placeholder.

bop

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bonkiman.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bonkiman terms

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑp/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Imitative of the sound made.

bop (plural bops)

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

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

1. (colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully.
   • 2013, Karin Tanabe, The List, page 37:

     “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.

• bip, boop

Shortened from bebop.

bop (countable and uncountable, plural bops)

1. (uncountable, music) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (slang, countable) A good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.
   • 2022 September 5, Maria Sherman, “The essential Harry Styles song book”, in Rolling Stone UK‎^[3]:

     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 endeavours. It’s a bop!

3. (countable) A casual party with dancing; a disco.
   • 2012, Barbara Claypole White, The Unfinished Garden, page 308:

     […] their first kiss during the school bop, with Paul Weller singing “You're the Best Thing” and everything tingling from her toes up […]

4. (countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.
   • 2005, Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University, page 472:

     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.

   • 2012, Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, page 120:

     At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.

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.

   • 2019 February 17, Chris Mench, “Blueface Wants People To Pay Attention To His Lyrics, Not Just Bop To His Music”, in Genius News‎^[4]:

     I’d rather you be stiff with a stuck look on your face than just bopping, not even listening to what a nigga saying.

   • 2020 October 8, Tall Boy Special, “Clothes”‎^[5]:

     The hat was sorta dancing, just bopping around
     Floating in the air six feet above the ground

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.

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

1. (informal, ambitransitive) To walk casually; to stroll.
   • 2011, S. E. Finken, Near Misses, page 199:

     "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."

   • 2019 July 31, “Taste (Make It Shake)”, Aitch (lyrics)‎^[6]:

     I'm just bopping, give a fuck who's in the place

     In the music video around this line, he is walking on road and barely dancing.

2. (slang, ambitransitive) To have sex.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate

   • 2002, Tim Cockey, The Hearse You Came In On:

     I'm here because your wife and I have been bopping like bunnies. Here are the pictures to prove it.

   • 2012, Terrence Oral Taylor, Dancing with the Boogie Man, page 196:

     […] 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.”

3. (slang, ambitransitive) To fellate.
   • 2016 June 28, “Hazards”, Loski (lyrics)‎^[7]performed by Loski, 2:39:

     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')

     The rapper's gestures do not leave room for ambiguity.

Originated in the early 2000s as slang term in African American Vernacular English. Early entries for bop in the Urban Dictionary date to 2005 (describing “a female who gives head [fellatio] to anyone.”). The term was popularized among Gen-Zers in 2023, after TikTok user @theyhateonbiran1 posted a video explaining the etymology (derived as an abbreviation of “blown out pussy,” in reference to a female who has had multiple sexual partners, although it has been adapted to alternatively mean “baddie on point,” usually in reference to women who post sexually provocative or explicit content online).^[1][2]

bop (plural bops)

1. (slang, offensive) A promiscuous woman, especially in the context of having a high body count or giving fellatio to many men.
2. (slang, offensive) A woman presenting themselves online in a manner thought of as being immodest, usually to generate views or income through social media or subscription content platforms.

• BPO, OBP, PBO

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *Nbup, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pup (“to rot, spoil”).

• (Myanmar) /bɔp˧/
• (Longchuan) [pup⁵⁵]
• (Luxi) [pɔp³¹]

bop

1. to rot, decay, spoil

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[8], Payap University, page 13

Unadapted borrowing from English bop.

• IPA^(key): /bɔp/

bop c (uncountable)

1. (jazz) bebop

• bop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• IPA^(key): /bɔp/

bop

1. soft mutation of pop