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bop1

nounPlural bops bɒpbɑp
informal
  • 1British A dance to pop music.

    〈主英〉博普舞(一种伴以流行乐曲的舞蹈)

    nightlife is good, whether you're looking for a drink or a bop in the disco
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His particular passion is a form of swing dancing known as beach bop.
    • Cool was the bop in your step, the pearl in your cap, the cigarette dangling from your lip.
    • We chatted for a while, had a bop, drank a few more beers and I was contemplating the bus ride home when I noticed a very handsome man had just arrived.
    • Gloria and her husband still enjoy a bit of a bop and a jive.
    • I just want to get dressed up, meet my friends, have a laugh, have a bop and not worry about that bleeper.
    Synonyms
    dance
    informal boogie, jive
    1. 1.1 An organized social occasion with dancing to pop music.
      博普舞会
      colleges extend a welcoming hand through buffets and bops
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One bystander said he was ‘angry and obviously upset, adding his wife was at the bop dancing with people’.
      • This can be anything from organising a bop or running a society to setting up an IT firm.
      • He also stated that he enjoyed bops because they are ‘a great opportunity for college sanctioned nudity’.
      • The fortnightly bops have been subject to complaints in the past both from residents and other colleges including Hertford.
      • I have neither the energy for a Buffy-themed Halloween bop, nor a cast party that will start at 2 am (after the set and lights are dismantled).
      • Surely with these simple features, throwing a bop would be easy.
      • And it led me to consider a thought I had back at the last bop.
      • Tickets for the bop will be on sale in the bar on Thursday 6th between 9pm and 11pm.
      • Revellers can now celebrate the coming of the New Year with a bop, after politicians cleared away antiquated legislation in time for this Sunday's festivities.
      • The second year inhabitants of the house, who asked not to be named, discovered the break-in upon returning from a bop.
      • At the end of term bop the pair approached Morrison to find out why they had been named in her email.
      • Perhaps the Oxford student looks to find greater gratification at the end-of-term bop or in the classic ‘entertainment’ offered by a night of Comic Relief, rather than ninety minutes in the cold and a decidedly dodgy hotdog.
      • The absence of a designated fire exit created a potentially dangerous situation in the JCR, which had been used frequently to host college bops.
      Synonyms
      discotheque
      informal disco, hop
  • 2

    short for bebop
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While Mazurek's early recordings showcased his ability as a player of straight bop inflected jazz, since then his concern seems to have been to strip away the extraneous.
    • The chameleonic Ribot shines in this setting with his unsurprisingly individual take on the bop guitar tradition.
    • Everyone, including the characters, are better served by the hard bop than this bluesy, shapeless jazz, with its rare but painful false notes.
    • Chet's was an economical, West Coast jazz style, unlike the hard bop of the East Coast which was much harder, faster and higher.
    • An awesome bandleader, Eckstine first fronted a bop big band with musicians who established the vocabulary of modern jazz.
    • The section ends almost whimsically with the band fixating upon a repeated bop riff and then finishing with an extended atonal blast.
    • But even when Chenaux is plucking out his excellent tension, the rest of the band generally keeps it cool and hip on the bop tip.
    • As the Vandermark reference suggests, what makes this band a joy to listen to is that they are part of that fraction of the jazz world that is not afraid to combine the energies unleashed by both bop and free jazz in a joyous mix.
    • This collection dates from 1958, a period when hard bop & soul jazz were dominant in the contemporary jazz arena, and the roots of such music (the blues and gospel) are evident here.
    • By the time she is stomping to ‘You're So Square’ or bringing the bop with the magnificent Mingus track ‘God Must Be a Boogie Man,’ she has won us over.
    • Ninesense was lead by sax player Dean, whose long association with Soft Machine paralleled a solo career that mixed post bop, free jazz and rock influences.
    • But his self-appointed mission to restore to jazz a cultural-political clout it had in the first bop era and in the free-jazz of the 1960s makes him something considerably bigger.
    • These harmonies, however, fit into the jazz idiom just as bop made its way into the mainstream, enriching both.
    • His tone tended to be hard and harsh and lacked the varied coloration of the bop innovator Charlie Parker.
    • His newest project, Ronnie Artur and his Orkestrio, is a faux bop, finger-snapping version of white jazz cool and spoken word collaboration.
    • So it's not surprising that after leading the cutting edge within soul jazz & hard bop, very little new ground has been broken since the 1960s and 70s.
    • It's got a bop feel in the walking bass and the vibe hits, but the three singers find a whole new way to construct post-rock eeriness.
    • Instead of advancing the case of hard bop like Blakey, he wanted to build bridges between rock, soul and jazz.
    • Originally of the hard bop school, Ayers embraced the strains of black music coming from the radio, incorporating more R&B smoothness and disco push into his jazz-based playing.
    • Throughout, Metheny's guitar (often fitted with a strangely saxophone-like sound) battles it out with Ornette's alto in an edgy exchange of riffs, tumbling bop phrases and squeals.
verbbopping, bopped, bops bɒpbɑp
[no object]informal
  • 1Dance to pop music.

    〈主英〉博普舞(一种伴以流行乐曲的舞蹈)

    everyone was bopping until the small hours

    每个人都一直跳到下半夜。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These were barely needed as soon everyone was down in the basement bopping on the dance floor or bobbing in the dark room.
    • Licensing magistrates granted a Section 77 to the riverside pub, giving drinkers a chance to stay there until the witching hour three days a week, with the chance to bop on the dance floor or guzzle the substantial food.
    • The crowd seemed to enjoy the band's set, with many at the stage front dancing and bopping around.
    • Brian stuck some nineties dance music on and everyone was soon bopping around like idiots.
    • Hear your song come on and you start bopping and dancing.
    • Audience members can't avoid the urge to dance after watching the band bop around on stage, in time to the good ol' cow tunes.
    • Clubbers bopped on the open air, split-level dance floor until the early hours of the morning.
    • I had always liked bopping around at student discos - now I was graduating as a true clubber.
    • On the disco floor, she energetically bumped, rocked and bopped; I tripped, stumbled and flopped.
    • But there he was in her living room bopping along to the music in an absurd little dance the likes of which she hadn't seen since high school.
    • Their brand of pop rock with balls can still make you jump up and down and bop along.
    • In 1985, aged 20, she met her future husband while bopping on the dance floor and they were married four years later.
    • This is the room that Graham's been quietly making over this past week and a bit, while bopping away to a succession of CDs.
    • Inside it's split over three levels and more hectic, with weekend clubbers cramming in to bop and bounce to everything from house to hip-hop.
    • Bars keep bopping until three or four in the morning, but those who want to dance the night away can keep going until sunrise at one of the nightclubs or discos in the town.
    • In no time, everyone was singing and bopping along to their two singles.
    • The entire crowd was in a constant groove, heads bopping and legs kicking up doing the twist, swing dancing, and just plain old quaking and shaking.
    • Over 1,000 people bopped, jigged, jived and pogoed to some excellent bands.
    • According to Bu-Ah-Kui's chatelaine, Hsiao Shu-hua, the place is bopping until three or four in the morning, serving up a stunning variety of conventional and exotic foods.
    • Dad used to say I would bop to the beat on all fours when I was a baby.
    Synonyms
    dance, jig, leap, jump, skip, bounce
    informal boogie, jive, groove, disco, rock, pogo, mosh, stomp, hoof it
    North American informal get down, shake one's booty, cut a/the rug, slam-dance
    dated step it
    1. 1.1 Move or travel energetically.
      精力旺盛地走动(或旅游)
      entrepreneurial types bopping around Italy

      精力旺盛地在意大利四处游玩的企业家们。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Friday's traditional end-of-year concert saw around 75 youngsters strut their stuff on stage before bopping along to a disco.
      • He did a Gary dance, and bopped joyfully along the sidewalk and across the street toward my house.
      • Too bad we're starting to move that week or I would bop on down to this great show in a sunny land that knows not snow.
      • The two leaned against the bar in awkward silence until Claire came bopping over.
      • More importantly, there are some great energetic tunes here that you can bop around to.
      • It's time to put recent hurts firmly and finally behind you--life's bopping along quite nicely right now, and this week won't make waves if you don't.
      • Bargain hunters were able to shop and bop until they dropped as the sweet sound of a 100-voice choir singing a cappella filled The Lowry Designer Outlet at Salford Quays.
      • One of the nurses of the ward, a tall woman whose social life rests with her three kids - yep, even I've seen the awful pictures - bops up to the foot of my bed.
      • I bopped around telling everyone that THIS WAS THE BEST MUSIC EVER MADE.
      • With the radio tuned to an all-oldies station, they bopped across town and onto the Narrows Bridge.
      • I started on the second floor and made my way up to the fourth, at a fairly quick pace, weaving and bopping around the crowd.

Derivatives

  • bopper

  • nounˈbɒpəˈbɑpər
    informal
    • The girls know how to switch gears, though, and give a sweet, slowed-down performance on Dream Boy, a jive-tastic bopper on Mr Lee and a winking slinkathon on Three Cool Chicks.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He became best known as a fiery and energetic hard bopper with a string of classic Blue Note albums from the 60s to his name, as well as being a graduate of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
      • Brought up on Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley and Don Cherry, Parker cut his teeth with post boppers like Ted Sirota and Ernest Dawkins before moving into more eclectic territory.
      • A preppie in a sea of black leather, I was like some Beatlemaniac teen bopper; I remember my girlfriend looking at me bemusedly like I had been possessed by some demented person.
      • Never under no circumstances place your wedding cake near the dance floor because the boogie bopper may cause a lotta heartache.
      • Two such are Mondo '77, a synth-driven Eurovision bopper, and Money Hair, which marries a 1960s groove to the impossibly cute notion that you can sell your hair to pay the bills.
      • He and other beach boppers founded the club in 1999.
      • Personally, I think they're pretty catchy - songs like Black Balloon and Here is Gone are bouncy, fun tunes that don't smack of teenie bopper, sugar encrusted pop.
      • Equally influenced by Fats Navarro's bebop pyrotechnics and second generation boppers like Booker Little, he proved himself an adaptable, thoughtful addition to the British scene.
      • One was for the Madonna-Prince boppers, one for the Morrisey-Cure ghoulies.

Origin

1940s: shortening of bebop.

Rhymes

atop, chop, clop, cop, crop, dop, drop, Dunlop, estop, flop, fop, glop, hop, intercrop, knop, kop, lop, mop, op, plop, pop, prop, screw-top, shop, slop, sop, stop, strop, swap, tiptop, top, underprop, whop

bop2

verbbopping, bopped, bops bɒpbɑp
[with object]informal
  • Hit or punch quickly.

    打,击

    Rex bopped him on the head

    雷克斯很快地在他头上打了一下。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Okay, it's at this point when you bop me on my head for being stupid.
    • The ball is slightly out of air because our school is too cheap to buy air pumps, and it keeps bopping my hard skull today.
    • I opened the refrigerator door and accidentally bopped The Princess with it.
    • The bushy-haired driver bopped his partner on top of the head with a closed fist, and squealed the car to a shuddering halt at the right curb.
    • Some of them would cry and bop the others over the head.
    • Fred bops him, as any red-blooded American choreographer would, but unfortunately Tom turns out to be an officer, and Fred's in the guardhouse.
    • They could bop me on the head and pinch the whole lot.
    • Andrew shook his head in disapproval and bopped me on the forehead with his index finger.
    • Besides, Al would've bopped him in the nose if he didn't get to participate, one way or another.
    • It's just too tiring to bop somebody on the nose.
    • This gave me time to bop him on the nose to get him off me and hastily escape before he came back for more.
    • In a bizarre scene during a popular costume race at Milwaukee Brewers games, he bopped a woman dressed as a huge Italian sausage with a bat and was booked for misdemeanor battery.
    • It seems the whole jungle community is counting on master sleuth Scott to find El Gato so they can promptly bop him on the head and steal it from him.
    • Too little force in the swing and the axe is liable to bounce back and bop you on the nose.
    • He bopped her lightly on the arm with a mock smile.
    • After about another ten minutes of this oh-so-productive process, Skye finally stopped bopping her head against the steering wheel and began to allow thoughts into her thoroughly abused head.
    • I gaped at him in surprise as Trent bopped him hard on the back of the head.
    • Rainey bopped her brother on the back of the head then plopped down on the couch next to him.
    • Perhaps he had met and dated some Asian women who had pandered to this stereotype for him, but it's still hard not to want to bop someone on the head who thinks this way.
    • I did try to help by folding his knees under him, but all that did was unbalance him and he ended up bopping the carpet with his nose.
    • Down comes the Goddess Isis, and she says, ‘Little God Anubis, I don't want to see you picking up the field mice and bopping them on the head.’
    • She never tried to hide her feelings, but isn't so rude or so brutally honest you feel like bopping her on her head.
    • Section 43 of the Canadian Criminal code allows adults to bop naughty children.
    • Was someone going to bop me on the head to take my change?
    • ‘Please wake up!’ cried Charlie, bopping him lightly over the head with her flashlight.
    • The police had a relationship with these guys and they couldn't just arrest them and bop them on the head.
    • Oi, you at the back, stop muttering ‘no change there’ before I come over and bop you.
    • Is it surprising that he has bopped a paparazzo on the nose?
    • Right after he said that, Amy bopped him over the head lightly.
    • I turned around and bopped him on the head with my cue.
    • Better than smile beatifically, she should have bopped him on the noggin with the nearest ornament.
    • Daria lightly bopped me on the head for my rather brash remark.
    • She bopped the flowers on his head, but making sure it didn't ruin them.
    • He lightly bopped his youngest daughter's little nose.
    • She slipped and fell and bopped her nose off a rock.
    • Another misleading gut feeling, he thought, bopping his head with a book.
    • Instead he held out his fist, letting his friend bop his fist onto it.
    • At the height of the craze, I stood on the North Bank at Highbury in a forest of bananas, watching awestruck as they celebrated another goal going in by either bopping your neighbour over the head, or simply chucking the thing in the air.
    • Bopping them over the head with a James Bond drop-kick does not do much for anyone, other than stirring up more aggression in a potentially very aggressive situation.
    • ‘No, silly,’ Claire said, lightly bopping her knuckles on Mark's head.
nounPlural bops bɒpbɑp
informal
  • A quick blow or punch.

    迅速一击

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All Zephyr had to do to quiet him was bop him softly on the arm, and he cried out in pain.
    • You deserve a bop on the nose.
    • A sudden harsh wind blowing off the moor, an inattentive owner — no worries there — and off she'd blow, perhaps with a brief bop on the head with a flagpole for good measure.
    • After a quick bop on the head, poor Fred becomes docile and co-operative.
    • I told Kathryn to stay in her routine, then gave her a bop on the head with my yardage book and told her not to think too much.
    • Whenever I tried to take food between meals when I was a boy, I was scolded and got a bop on the head.
    • Each week long lines of people would come forward to witness and be welcomed and blessed as they come out—a little bop on the forehead to heal them from heterosexuality, and they would fall backward in the welcoming arms of other gay people.
    • Intially I assumed that it was deliberately harmful, but the more I think about it, perhaps it's intended more as the bop on the head from your zen master.
    • Fundi persistently approached the mound, but even little Gimli gave him a bop on the head when he attempted to join in the fishing.
    • Suddenly, Dey leapt upon his younger brother and gave him a bop on the head.

Origin

1930s (originally US): imitative.

bop1

nounbäpbɑp
informal
  • short for bebop
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Originally of the hard bop school, Ayers embraced the strains of black music coming from the radio, incorporating more R&B smoothness and disco push into his jazz-based playing.
    • The chameleonic Ribot shines in this setting with his unsurprisingly individual take on the bop guitar tradition.
    • His tone tended to be hard and harsh and lacked the varied coloration of the bop innovator Charlie Parker.
    • It's got a bop feel in the walking bass and the vibe hits, but the three singers find a whole new way to construct post-rock eeriness.
    • Throughout, Metheny's guitar (often fitted with a strangely saxophone-like sound) battles it out with Ornette's alto in an edgy exchange of riffs, tumbling bop phrases and squeals.
    • The section ends almost whimsically with the band fixating upon a repeated bop riff and then finishing with an extended atonal blast.
    • Ninesense was lead by sax player Dean, whose long association with Soft Machine paralleled a solo career that mixed post bop, free jazz and rock influences.
    • These harmonies, however, fit into the jazz idiom just as bop made its way into the mainstream, enriching both.
    • But his self-appointed mission to restore to jazz a cultural-political clout it had in the first bop era and in the free-jazz of the 1960s makes him something considerably bigger.
    • As the Vandermark reference suggests, what makes this band a joy to listen to is that they are part of that fraction of the jazz world that is not afraid to combine the energies unleashed by both bop and free jazz in a joyous mix.
    • But even when Chenaux is plucking out his excellent tension, the rest of the band generally keeps it cool and hip on the bop tip.
    • Chet's was an economical, West Coast jazz style, unlike the hard bop of the East Coast which was much harder, faster and higher.
    • Instead of advancing the case of hard bop like Blakey, he wanted to build bridges between rock, soul and jazz.
    • While Mazurek's early recordings showcased his ability as a player of straight bop inflected jazz, since then his concern seems to have been to strip away the extraneous.
    • By the time she is stomping to ‘You're So Square’ or bringing the bop with the magnificent Mingus track ‘God Must Be a Boogie Man,’ she has won us over.
    • This collection dates from 1958, a period when hard bop & soul jazz were dominant in the contemporary jazz arena, and the roots of such music (the blues and gospel) are evident here.
    • An awesome bandleader, Eckstine first fronted a bop big band with musicians who established the vocabulary of modern jazz.
    • His newest project, Ronnie Artur and his Orkestrio, is a faux bop, finger-snapping version of white jazz cool and spoken word collaboration.
    • So it's not surprising that after leading the cutting edge within soul jazz & hard bop, very little new ground has been broken since the 1960s and 70s.
    • Everyone, including the characters, are better served by the hard bop than this bluesy, shapeless jazz, with its rare but painful false notes.
verbbäpbɑp
[no object]informal
  • 1Dance to pop music.

    〈主英〉博普舞(一种伴以流行乐曲的舞蹈)

    bopping to the radio while they made breakfast
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I had always liked bopping around at student discos - now I was graduating as a true clubber.
    • In no time, everyone was singing and bopping along to their two singles.
    • Licensing magistrates granted a Section 77 to the riverside pub, giving drinkers a chance to stay there until the witching hour three days a week, with the chance to bop on the dance floor or guzzle the substantial food.
    • Their brand of pop rock with balls can still make you jump up and down and bop along.
    • The entire crowd was in a constant groove, heads bopping and legs kicking up doing the twist, swing dancing, and just plain old quaking and shaking.
    • Inside it's split over three levels and more hectic, with weekend clubbers cramming in to bop and bounce to everything from house to hip-hop.
    • These were barely needed as soon everyone was down in the basement bopping on the dance floor or bobbing in the dark room.
    • Over 1,000 people bopped, jigged, jived and pogoed to some excellent bands.
    • This is the room that Graham's been quietly making over this past week and a bit, while bopping away to a succession of CDs.
    • Clubbers bopped on the open air, split-level dance floor until the early hours of the morning.
    • But there he was in her living room bopping along to the music in an absurd little dance the likes of which she hadn't seen since high school.
    • Audience members can't avoid the urge to dance after watching the band bop around on stage, in time to the good ol' cow tunes.
    • Brian stuck some nineties dance music on and everyone was soon bopping around like idiots.
    • Bars keep bopping until three or four in the morning, but those who want to dance the night away can keep going until sunrise at one of the nightclubs or discos in the town.
    • Dad used to say I would bop to the beat on all fours when I was a baby.
    • Hear your song come on and you start bopping and dancing.
    • According to Bu-Ah-Kui's chatelaine, Hsiao Shu-hua, the place is bopping until three or four in the morning, serving up a stunning variety of conventional and exotic foods.
    • In 1985, aged 20, she met her future husband while bopping on the dance floor and they were married four years later.
    • On the disco floor, she energetically bumped, rocked and bopped; I tripped, stumbled and flopped.
    • The crowd seemed to enjoy the band's set, with many at the stage front dancing and bopping around.
    Synonyms
    dance, jig, leap, jump, skip, bounce
    1. 1.1 Move or travel energetically.
      精力旺盛地走动(或旅游)
      we had been bopping around the county all morning
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The two leaned against the bar in awkward silence until Claire came bopping over.
      • Friday's traditional end-of-year concert saw around 75 youngsters strut their stuff on stage before bopping along to a disco.
      • One of the nurses of the ward, a tall woman whose social life rests with her three kids - yep, even I've seen the awful pictures - bops up to the foot of my bed.
      • I started on the second floor and made my way up to the fourth, at a fairly quick pace, weaving and bopping around the crowd.
      • Too bad we're starting to move that week or I would bop on down to this great show in a sunny land that knows not snow.
      • With the radio tuned to an all-oldies station, they bopped across town and onto the Narrows Bridge.
      • He did a Gary dance, and bopped joyfully along the sidewalk and across the street toward my house.
      • It's time to put recent hurts firmly and finally behind you--life's bopping along quite nicely right now, and this week won't make waves if you don't.
      • More importantly, there are some great energetic tunes here that you can bop around to.
      • Bargain hunters were able to shop and bop until they dropped as the sweet sound of a 100-voice choir singing a cappella filled The Lowry Designer Outlet at Salford Quays.
      • I bopped around telling everyone that THIS WAS THE BEST MUSIC EVER MADE.

Origin

1940s: shortening of bebop.

bop2

verbbäpbɑp
[with object]informal
  • Hit; punch lightly.

    I warned him I'd bop him on the nose if he tried it
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Right after he said that, Amy bopped him over the head lightly.
    • She slipped and fell and bopped her nose off a rock.
    • She never tried to hide her feelings, but isn't so rude or so brutally honest you feel like bopping her on her head.
    • The ball is slightly out of air because our school is too cheap to buy air pumps, and it keeps bopping my hard skull today.
    • Besides, Al would've bopped him in the nose if he didn't get to participate, one way or another.
    • In a bizarre scene during a popular costume race at Milwaukee Brewers games, he bopped a woman dressed as a huge Italian sausage with a bat and was booked for misdemeanor battery.
    • It seems the whole jungle community is counting on master sleuth Scott to find El Gato so they can promptly bop him on the head and steal it from him.
    • Section 43 of the Canadian Criminal code allows adults to bop naughty children.
    • It's just too tiring to bop somebody on the nose.
    • I turned around and bopped him on the head with my cue.
    • Bopping them over the head with a James Bond drop-kick does not do much for anyone, other than stirring up more aggression in a potentially very aggressive situation.
    • Andrew shook his head in disapproval and bopped me on the forehead with his index finger.
    • At the height of the craze, I stood on the North Bank at Highbury in a forest of bananas, watching awestruck as they celebrated another goal going in by either bopping your neighbour over the head, or simply chucking the thing in the air.
    • I opened the refrigerator door and accidentally bopped The Princess with it.
    • They could bop me on the head and pinch the whole lot.
    • ‘No, silly,’ Claire said, lightly bopping her knuckles on Mark's head.
    • He lightly bopped his youngest daughter's little nose.
    • Too little force in the swing and the axe is liable to bounce back and bop you on the nose.
    • Is it surprising that he has bopped a paparazzo on the nose?
    • Perhaps he had met and dated some Asian women who had pandered to this stereotype for him, but it's still hard not to want to bop someone on the head who thinks this way.
    • Fred bops him, as any red-blooded American choreographer would, but unfortunately Tom turns out to be an officer, and Fred's in the guardhouse.
    • Was someone going to bop me on the head to take my change?
    • Daria lightly bopped me on the head for my rather brash remark.
    • I gaped at him in surprise as Trent bopped him hard on the back of the head.
    • I did try to help by folding his knees under him, but all that did was unbalance him and he ended up bopping the carpet with his nose.
    • Some of them would cry and bop the others over the head.
    • ‘Please wake up!’ cried Charlie, bopping him lightly over the head with her flashlight.
    • The police had a relationship with these guys and they couldn't just arrest them and bop them on the head.
    • Oi, you at the back, stop muttering ‘no change there’ before I come over and bop you.
    • After about another ten minutes of this oh-so-productive process, Skye finally stopped bopping her head against the steering wheel and began to allow thoughts into her thoroughly abused head.
    • This gave me time to bop him on the nose to get him off me and hastily escape before he came back for more.
    • Down comes the Goddess Isis, and she says, ‘Little God Anubis, I don't want to see you picking up the field mice and bopping them on the head.’
    • Instead he held out his fist, letting his friend bop his fist onto it.
    • He bopped her lightly on the arm with a mock smile.
    • The bushy-haired driver bopped his partner on top of the head with a closed fist, and squealed the car to a shuddering halt at the right curb.
    • She bopped the flowers on his head, but making sure it didn't ruin them.
    • Okay, it's at this point when you bop me on my head for being stupid.
    • Rainey bopped her brother on the back of the head then plopped down on the couch next to him.
    • Another misleading gut feeling, he thought, bopping his head with a book.
    • Better than smile beatifically, she should have bopped him on the noggin with the nearest ornament.
nounbäpbɑp
informal
  • A blow or light punch.

    迅速一击

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Intially I assumed that it was deliberately harmful, but the more I think about it, perhaps it's intended more as the bop on the head from your zen master.
    • All Zephyr had to do to quiet him was bop him softly on the arm, and he cried out in pain.
    • A sudden harsh wind blowing off the moor, an inattentive owner — no worries there — and off she'd blow, perhaps with a brief bop on the head with a flagpole for good measure.
    • Suddenly, Dey leapt upon his younger brother and gave him a bop on the head.
    • Whenever I tried to take food between meals when I was a boy, I was scolded and got a bop on the head.
    • I told Kathryn to stay in her routine, then gave her a bop on the head with my yardage book and told her not to think too much.
    • Fundi persistently approached the mound, but even little Gimli gave him a bop on the head when he attempted to join in the fishing.
    • Each week long lines of people would come forward to witness and be welcomed and blessed as they come out—a little bop on the forehead to heal them from heterosexuality, and they would fall backward in the welcoming arms of other gay people.
    • After a quick bop on the head, poor Fred becomes docile and co-operative.
    • You deserve a bop on the nose.

Origin

1930s (originally US): imitative.

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