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bop

1[bop] noun, verb, bopped, bop⋅ping.
–noun
1. Also called bebop. early modern jazz developed in the early 1940s and characterized by often dissonant triadic and chromatic chords, fast tempos and eccentric rhythms, intricate melodic lines punctuated by pop-tune phrases, and emphasizing the inventiveness of soloists. Compare cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
–verb (used without object)
2. Slang. to move, go, or proceed (often fol. by on down): Let's bop on down to the party.

Origin:
1945–50, Americanism; (be)bop
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bop [bɑp]

  1. tv.
    to strike someone or something. : You wanna get bopped in the beezer?
  2. n.
    a style of jazz popular in the 1940s. : We heard some bop in an old movie.
  3. n.
    a drug in pill form; a dose of a drug. (See also hit.) : You gonna drop both of them bops?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bop 
1948, shortening of bebop; it soon came to mean "any sort of dancing to pop music" (1956).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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