bebop
See also: be-bop
English
editEtymology
editAlteration of earlier rebop, nonsense syllables used in scat singing in the 1940s. Compare doo be doo be doo, doo-wop, etc.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbiːbɒp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editbebop (uncountable)
- (music) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editearly form of modern jazz
Verb
editbebop (third-person singular simple present bebops, present participle bebopping, simple past and past participle bebopped)
- (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
- 1988 September 2, Bill Wyman, “Terms of interment: retrospecting the Ramones and the Clash”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Six months into their career, the Clash already showed themselves the equal of any rock band that had come before them, simply by assaulting the last frontier of rock mythology: the notion that the rock audience, like some sort of bebopping proletariat, was a receptacle of goodness and hope, and that rock 'n' roll offered redemption.
- 2007 November 26, Brooks Barnes, “Laugh Lines in the Hollywood Strike”, in New York Times[2]:
- “The studios think we are having a horrible time out here,” said Richard Potter, a screenwriter who made “Strike Dancing,” a YouTube video showing pickets bebopping in formation to “Play That Funky Music.”
- (intransitive, usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.
- 1986, Steve Estes, Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman, Slain by Terrorists, Zondervan Publishing Company, →ISBN:
- Typically one could spot Chet bebopping down the sidewalk in an Amish hat, or hunched over a cafeteria table discussing Calvinism or the Vietnam war.
- 2001, Patsy Clairmont, The Best Devotions of Patsy Clairmont, Zondervan Publishing Company, →ISBN:
- I can't even say it was the people who board and casually whack off the top of your head with their slung-over-the-shoulder carry-ons as they obliviously bebop down the aisle to locate their seats.
- 2013, Beth Kendrick, The Week Before the Wedding, Penguin, →ISBN:
- Summer bebopped over, holding a cup of spiked punch in each hand.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
editDutch
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English bebop.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editbebop m (uncountable)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
editbebop on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbebop
Declension
editInflection of bebop (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | bebop | bebopit | |
genitive | bebopin | bebopien | |
partitive | bebopia | bebopeja | |
illative | bebopiin | bebopeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | bebop | bebopit | |
accusative | nom. | bebop | bebopit |
gen. | bebopin | ||
genitive | bebopin | bebopien | |
partitive | bebopia | bebopeja | |
inessive | bebopissa | bebopeissa | |
elative | bebopista | bebopeista | |
illative | bebopiin | bebopeihin | |
adessive | bebopilla | bebopeilla | |
ablative | bebopilta | bebopeilta | |
allative | bebopille | bebopeille | |
essive | bebopina | bebopeina | |
translative | bebopiksi | bebopeiksi | |
abessive | bebopitta | bebopeitta | |
instructive | — | bebopein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “bebop”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Polish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English bebop.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbebop m inan
Declension
editDeclension of bebop
Derived terms
editadjective
Further reading
editSpanish
editNoun
editbebop m (uncountable)
Further reading
edit- “bebop”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English bebop.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbebop c (uncountable)
Declension
editDeclension of bebop | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | bebop | bebopen | — | — |
Genitive | bebops | bebopens | — | — |
Synonyms
editReferences
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- English 2-syllable words
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- en:Musical genres
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- English intransitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch unadapted borrowings from English
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- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Jazz
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ebop
- Rhymes:Finnish/ebop/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish unadapted borrowings from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ibɔp
- Rhymes:Polish/ibɔp/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Music
- Polish singularia tantum
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish uncountable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
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- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
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- sv:Jazz