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Dopped vs Bopped - What's the difference?

dopped | bopped |

As verbs the difference between dopped and bopped

is that dopped is (dop) while bopped is (bop).

dopped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dop)

    • 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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    bopped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bop)

    • 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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