Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to fight, esp. as one of a street gang [bop v. (1)].

1965

C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 112: Bebopping was gone, it was out of style, it was for kids.

2. to walk in an arrogant, ‘cocky’ manner; also as n. [bop v. (4); pun on SE bebop, a style of jazz/dancing].

1975		W.D. Myers fast sam, cool clyde, and stuff 111: Later, I got to split.’ Sam said that he had to leave and he sort of be-bopped away.
1978		H. Selby Jr Requiem for a Dream (1987) 8: Tyrone bebopped his way down the subway steps.
1986		J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 243: While Anne bebopped into the scene, he hung back.
1996		P. Beatty White Boy Shuffle 122: Psycho Loco would bebop over to my rescue.
1998		L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 166: He [...] seems to have emerged with something more to hold onto than the bebop, gangsta hipsterism that passes for identity on the streets.
2004		D. Grann ‘The Brand’ in New Yorker 16 Feb. 166/2: ‘Speed, man, you’re bebopping around and you’re doing more time than you would normally because you ain’t sleeping at night’.

3. (US) to move (in any manner other than walking).

1983		P. Dexter Gods Pocket 207: Mickey was watching Stretch bebopping in the window of his truck.
1984		J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 147: ‘I thought we might be-bop around L.A. and check out urban romanticism’.