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Dop vs Bop - What's the difference?

dop | bop |

As verbs the difference between dop and bop

is that dop is while bop is press.

dop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (South Africa, slang). A drink.
  • Let's go to the bar for a dop .
  • (South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.
  • Give me a dop of brandy.
  • (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
  • (Ben Jonson)
  • A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
  • Synonyms

    * (cup in which diamond is cut) doop

    Verb

    (dopp)
  • (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)
  • I dopped my exams.
  • (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
  • * 2004 , Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game (page 170)
  • They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.
  • To dip.
  • (Walton)

    See also

    * dop kit

    Anagrams

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    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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