Meaning

5 senses

  1. (colloquial, transitive)To strike gently or playfully.

    Stups, stupsen

  2. To dance to music with a marked beat.

    She was bopping to the song's drum beats.

    dance the bebop

  3. (ambitransitive, informal)To walk casually; to stroll.

  4. (ambitransitive, slang)To have sex.

  5. (ambitransitive, slang)To fellate.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. It's got some bops, this album.

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Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a very light smack, blow or punch:
to strike gently or playfully:

Origin

Imitative of the sound made. Shortened from bebop. Variant of whop (“to move around quic

Imitative of the sound made.

Shortened from bebop.

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.

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Forms

bops, bopping, bopped, bopped
Base formbop · to bop
3rd person singularbops
Present participlebopping
Past simplebopped
Past participlebopped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybop
he, she, itbops

Past simpleLesson

all personsbopped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bopped
he, she, ithas bopped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bop

Synonyms

107 synonyms
approachB2commonA2companyA2coupleA2knowA1mateB2strainB2bangB1beatB1boneA1bounceB1breedB1crackB2danceA1
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbop around

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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