bebop
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Origin:
1940–45, Americanism; probably from the nonsense syllables typical of scat singing
1940–45, Americanism; probably from the nonsense syllables typical of scat singing
Related forms
be·bop·per, noun
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bebop (ˈbiːbɒp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| the full name for bop | |
| [C20: imitative of the rhythm of the music] | |
| 'bebopper | |
| —n | |
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Bebop
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
bebop
1944, from bebop, rebop, bop, nonsense words in jazz lyrics, attested from at least 1928. The style is associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
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BeBOP definition
languageA language combining sequential and parallel logic programming, object-oriented and meta-level programming. Both don't know nondeterminism and stream AND-parallelism. Prolog theories are first order entities and may be updated or passed in messages. BeBOP is implemented by translation to NU-Prolog and PNU-Prolog.
(ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/bebop.tar.Z).
E-mail: Andrew Davidson
(1996-10-27)
Example sentences
Jazz drummer whose rhythmic innovations defined bebop.
Groups playing bebop were smaller than the large swing orchestras.
In the wake of bebop, jazz had become a music of enormous harmonic complexity.
Their style of jazz music was known as bebop or simply bop.
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