bop
/bɑp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.36 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“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."
- "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."
- "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!"
- "[…] their first kiss during the school bop, with Paul Weller singing “You're the Best Thing” and everything tingling from her toes up […]"
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɑp/
- British English: /bɒp/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
approach
cohabit
common
company
copulate
couple
engage in sex
exchange flesh
have intimate relations
have marital relations
have sex
have sexual relations