bop

noun

1. (colloquial, onomatopoeic)A very light smack, blow or punch.
2. (uncountable)A 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.”

3. (countable, slang)A good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.

   “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!”

4. (countable)A casual party with dancing; a disco.

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

5. (countable)A 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.”

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

6. (offensive, slang)A promiscuous woman, especially in the context of having a high body count or giving fellatio to many men.

   “Influencers on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and streaming sites […] dispense warnings about bops (those with many sexual partners), exegesis on the importance of body count (the number of people someone has slept with) and the dangers of simping (being excessively attentive or submissive to an uninterested love object), constructing entirely new categories by which to sort and judge potential mates.”

7. (offensive, slang)A woman presenting herself online in a manner thought of as being immodest, usually to generate views or income through social media or subscription content platforms.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of blowout preventer.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of burden of proof.

verb

1. (colloquial, transitive)To 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.”

2. To 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.”

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

3. (ambitransitive, informal)To 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. So I'm letting you take me to lunch."”

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

4. (ambitransitive, slang)To have sex.

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

   “[…] 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.””

5. (ambitransitive, slang)To fellate.

   “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')”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.

   “[…] and myself under the table with the B.O.P., making believe that the tablecloth is a tent.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.

   “"To be frank, at first I thought it was a joke," Hugh Hurwitz, who served as acting director of the BOP between May 2018 and August 2019, told the BBC.”

4. (informal)Bophuthatswana