BoP

1 the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationawide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes [syn: Federal Bureau of Prisons]

2 an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) [syn: bebop]

1 dance the bebop [syn: bebop]

2 hit hard [syn: sock, whop, whap, bonk, bash]

English

Etymology 1

imitative of the sound made

Pronunciation

• /bɒp/
• Rhymes with: -ɒp

Noun

1. A very light smack, blow or punch.

Verb

1. To gently or playfully strike someone or something.

Etymology 2

shortened from bebop

Noun

bop

1. A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.

Verb

1. To dance to this music.

BOP or bop may refer to:

• bop, a smack, strike, or punch
• bop, shortened form of Bebop, an early modern jazz developed in the 1940s
  • hard bop, a style of jazz music that is extension of bebop (or "bop") music
• bop, organised party or club night at many British universities
• bop, southern U.S. word for whore
• Bop an American magazine for teens
• Bop, a single by Dan Seals, released in 1986

Abbreviations

Places

• Bay of Plenty, a region in New Zealand
• Bophuthatswana, South Africa
• Border Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting marks BOP), a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States
• Bowes Park railway station, London, England; National Rail station code BOP

Entities

• balance of payments, measures the payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries
• bleeding on probing, expression used by dentists to signify gingival (gum) bleeding on mechanical stimulation by a probe
• blowout preventer, a large valve that encases an oil well at surface, in oil and gas drilling
• Bottom of the Pyramid (or Base of the Pyramid, or Bottom of the Pile); a reference to the large class of those in extreme poverty
• Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac. An acronym denoting common parts and specifications across engine and automobile offerings from these three General Motors divisions.
• Federal Bureau of Prisons, a branch of the U.S. Justice Department
• Businessowners policy, a type of insurance policy
• Balance of Power
• Brown Opera Productions, a student-run opera company at Brown University

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