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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Bophuthatswana
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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name
Initialism of Board of Peace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
A very light smack, blow or punch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, onomatopoeic
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noun
A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang
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noun
A casual party with dancing; a disco.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Qualifier: Oxbridge slang
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noun
A promiscuous woman, especially in the context of having a high body count or giving fellatio to many men.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: offensive, slang
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noun
A woman who posts erotic content for money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: offensive, slang
Qualifier: social media
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noun
Initialism of blowout preventer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Qualifier: oil industry
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noun
Initialism of burden of proof.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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verb
To strike gently or playfully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, transitive
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verb
To dance to music with a marked beat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To walk casually; to stroll.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, informal
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verb
To have sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, slang
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Synonyms: approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, intercourse, know, know someone in the biblical sense, make love, mate, share a bed, sleep together, strain, bang, bauf, beat, bone, boff, boink, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, clap cheeks, dance, discuss Uganda, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, expletive deleted, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, get the dirty water off one's chest, graft the forked tree, go all the way, haul one's ashes, have it away, have it off, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hook up, hump, jig-jig, knock boots, lay pipe, lay the pipe, make it, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, meddle, ming, Netflix and chill, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, pound, rail, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, screw, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, shaboink, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, stick, tumble
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verb
To fellate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, slang
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noun
an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bebop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: jazz
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Federal Bureau of Prisons
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: law enforcement agency
verb
hit hard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sock, whop, whap, bonk, bash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hit
verb
dance the bebop
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bebop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
History
Imitative of the sound made.
Shortened from bebop.
Originated in the early 2000s as slang term in African American Vernacular English. Early entries for bop in the Urban Dictionary date to 2005 (describing “a female who gives head [fellatio] to anyone.”). The term was popularized among Gen-Zers in 2023, after TikTok user @theyhateonbiran1 posted a video explaining the etymology (derived as an abbreviation of “blown out pussy,” in reference to a female who has had multiple sexual partners, although it has been adapted to alternatively mean “baddie on point,” usually in reference to women who post sexually provocative or explicit content online).
Variant of whop (“to move around quickly with an impact”) and bob (“to move gently vertically”) as well as from the dances above interpreted as a manner of locomotion.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
