1. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
   "Charlie Parker was a pioneer of bop";
   - bebop
    
2. [Brit, informal] A party with dancing to pop music; a disco
   "We're going to a bop at the student union tonight"

1. Dance the bebop
   "They bopped all night at the jazz club";
   - bebop
    
2. [informal] Hit hard
   "The teacher bopd the boy";
   - sock [informal], whop [informal], whap [N. Amer, informal], bonk [informal], bash [informal], clonk [informal], boink [N. Amer, informal], whack [informal], wham [informal], wallop [informal], lamp [UK, informal], clock [UK, informal], belt [informal]
    
3. [Brit, informal] Dance to pop music
   "They bopped all night to the latest hits"

1. 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
   - Federal Bureau of Prisons

Derived forms: bopping, bops, bopped

Type of: dance, hit, jazz, law enforcement agency, trip the light fantastic [archaic], trip the light fantastic toe [archaic]

Part of: Department of Justice, DoJ, Justice, Justice Department

Encyclopedia: Bop