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English
Etymology
Alteration of earlier rebop, nonsense syllables used in scat singing in the 1940s. Compare doo be doo be doo, doo-wop, etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
bebop (uncountable)
- (music) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.
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Verb
bebop (third-person singular simple present bebops, present participle bebopping, simple past and past participle bebopped)
- (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
1988 September 2, Bill Wyman, “Terms of interment: retrospecting the Ramones and the Clash”, in Chicago Reader:Six months into their career, the Clash already showed themselves the equal of any rock band that had come before them, simply by assaulting the last frontier of rock mythology: the notion that the rock audience, like some sort of bebopping proletariat, was a receptacle of goodness and hope, and that rock 'n' roll offered redemption.
2007 November 26, Brooks Barnes, “Laugh Lines in the Hollywood Strike”, in New York Times:“The studios think we are having a horrible time out here,” said Richard Potter, a screenwriter who made “Strike Dancing,” a YouTube video showing pickets bebopping in formation to “Play That Funky Music.”
- (intransitive, usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.
1986, Steve Estes, Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman, Slain by Terrorists, Zondervan Publishing Company, →ISBN:Typically one could spot Chet bebopping down the sidewalk in an Amish hat, or hunched over a cafeteria table discussing Calvinism or the Vietnam war.
2001, Patsy Clairmont, The Best Devotions of Patsy Clairmont, Zondervan Publishing Company, →ISBN:I can't even say it was the people who board and casually whack off the top of your head with their slung-over-the-shoulder carry-ons as they obliviously bebop down the aisle to locate their seats.
2013, Beth Kendrick, The Week Before the Wedding, Penguin, →ISBN:Summer bebopped over, holding a cup of spiked punch in each hand.
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Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bebop.
Pronunciation
Noun
bebop m (uncountable)
- bebop
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Finnish
Etymology
From English bebop.
Pronunciation
Noun
bebop
- bebop
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Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bebop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbi.bɔp/
- Rhymes: -ibɔp
- Syllabification: be‧bop
Noun
bebop m inan
- (music) bebop
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Further reading
- bebop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bebop in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Noun
bebop m (uncountable)
- bebop
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Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bebop.
Pronunciation
Noun
bebop c (uncountable)
- (jazz) bebop
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