bop n.1
1. a blow.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in AS VII:5 329: bop — n. — a blow. | |
| ‘Clip-Joint Chisellers’ in Ten Story Gang Aug. 🌐 He landed a terrific bop on Shiv’s button and sent him staggering. | |
| ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 No hard feelings for that bop on the jaw I gave you? | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Cop This Lot 41: One bop on the scone an’ they stay down. Can’t improve on that. | |
| Pinktoes (1989) 204: ‘Gave her quite a bop, eh what?’ [...] ‘As beautiful a straight right to the belly as I ever saw.’. | |
| (con. 1940s) Hold Tight (1990) 73: One good bop. Put that nigger back in his place. |
2. (US) a member of a teen street gang.
| Shook-Up Generation (1961) 21: Kemo [...] one of the greatest bops in gang history. | |
| Out of the Burning (1961) 12: I bet the four-eyed mushmouth had never seen the country club he had sent hundreds of bops to. | |
| Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 66: All you cool cats, bop daddies, and pennyweight pimps who think you know the score, / listen while I tell you of your superior: Herman from the Shark-Tooth Shore. |
3. (US) a fight between teen street gangs .
| (con. 1953–7) Violent Gang (1967) 63: A ‘bop’. That can be a small group, five, ten, twenty guys from one team, having it out with the same number from a different team. |
4. a dance.
| Third Ear n.p.: bop n. 1. a dance. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Train to Hell 106: If you see them at a dance ‘having a bop’ at some May Ball. | |
| Reach 17: I met Liz at a Newnham bop. |
5. (Scot.) a hairstyle copied from that of Elvis Presley in 1960s.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | (con. mid-1960s) Glasgow Gang Observed 89: The Blue Angels copied their hairstyle from Elvis, a cut called ‘The Bop,’ where the hair is combed upwards from the sides towards the middle, which falls over the forehead [...] to keep it in place the hair was sleeked with vaseline. |
6. (drugs) an injection of a narcotic drug; the immediate effect of any drug, e.g. a puff on a cannabis cigarette.
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 329: I feel way down deep somewhere the urge to put my arm down beside his in a humble-pie attitude, and take my place among my boys who got beat not by the bop. |
7. (US black) a bouncing style of walking, a stride.
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 293: He [...] walked with a hard bop that would put pimpers to shame. |
8. (juv.) a stand-out song.
 | Parents’ Guide to Teen Sl. 🌐 Bop = A really good song. More modern synonym for jam. |