bop
bop
- n 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
- n an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- v dance the bebop
- v hit hard
- Surrounded by bop addicts, Shearing's piano soon lost its English accent, picked up American "progressive" doubletalk.
- Boston's classical-music station WBMS this week decided to abandon Brahms for bop.
- Be-bop Bebopped As such things usually do, it began on Manhattan's 52nd Street.