bop

1. 1.

   dance the bebop

   Synonymsbebop

   Broaderdance
2. 2.

   hit hard

   Synonymssockwhopwhapbonkbash

   Broaderhit

Other forms of bop

plural

bops·

past tense or participle

bopped

present participle

bopping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bop

What does bop mean?

bop means "the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bop?

bop has 1 syllable: bop. In IPA it is /ˈbɑp/.

What is another word for bop?

Close synonyms include Federal Bureau of Prisons, bebop, bebop, sock, whop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bop a common word?

bop is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bop?

1 word rhymes with bop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.