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Bop vs Boppish - What's the difference?

bop | boppish |

As a verb bop

is press.

As an adjective boppish is

(jazz) in the bop style.

bop

English

Etymology 1

imitative of the sound made

Noun

(en noun)
  • (onomatopoeia) A very light smack, blow or punch.

    • Verb

  • To gently or playfully strike someone or something.

    • Etymology 2

    shortened from bebop

    Noun

  • A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
  • A party.
  • * 2005 , Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University (page 472)
    • 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.
  • * 2012 , Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (page 120)
    • At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.

    Verb

  • To dance to this music, or indeed any sort of popular music with a strong beat.

    • Anagrams

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    boppish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (jazz) In the bop style
  • * {{quote-book, 1990, John Chilton, The Song of the Hawk citation
    • , passage=The strategy of using two standard tunes and two boppish originals on the first session (23 February 1945) set the pattern for subsequent dates. }}

    Derived terms

    * boppishly * boppishness