as in blow
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument
a bop to the printer sometimes fixes it
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as in to hit
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner
she playfully bopped him on the head
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Recent Examples of bop
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
Her spectral trip-hop incantations are a departure from the maximalist, four-on-the-floor Brat bops ripping through the internet.
—Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
Julia Ries, SELF, 4 Dec. 2024
The roof of the house appears to be intact, with even an attic window bopping above the water.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Before the play begins, the cast bops around together onstage, vaping and chilling on a blow-up chaise longue and sharing a Kool-Aid-like substance from a plastic gallon jug covered in Sharpie graffiti.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
Her spectral trip-hop incantations are a departure from the maximalist, four-on-the-floor Brat bops ripping through the internet.
—Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
Verb
Jennifer Lava, a 40-year-old with stage 4 colon cancer, recently made it through 25 rounds of radiation by bopping out to two playlists.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 4 Dec. 2024
The roof of the house appears to be intact, with even an attic window bopping above the water.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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As such, this will likely be a blow because the country accounted for 50% of global oil demand growth between 2000 and 2023, averaging an annual increase of 518,000 bpd, according to the Energy Institute's 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy.Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Initially, the potential loss of that would be a pretty big blow.Jason Parham, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
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El Sett After biopics devoted to iconic music artists Maria Callas (Maria), Amy Winehouse (Back to Black) and Bob Dylan (A Complete Unknown) in 2024, the life of famed Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum will hit the big screen in 2025.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
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The film is seemingly set in 2001, as someone references watching the news that morning and seeing a plane hitting a skyscraper in New York.Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
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The Vigor has flat seams and enough stretch to move comfortably while bending over or reaching up, while thump loops make for easy layering on frigid days.Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
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The White Sox have a major need for power hitting as Jose Abreu, Eloy Jimenez and Yoan Moncada are gone and Andrew Vaughn appears to have misplaced his thump.Phil Rogers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Don't let the small can fool you though, this high will smack you in the face.Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
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Freeman, who had been struggling through an ankle injury, smacked the first pitch from Nestor Cortes 413 feet in the 10th inning of Game 1 for the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history.NBC Los Angeles, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024
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The verbal glove slap unleashed a back-and-forth war of words via diss track, which, in retrospect, was never going to go Drake's way – Lamar, after all, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist.Rebecca Messina, The Week UK, theweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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In one breath, people acknowledged the social faux pas of the slap while simultaneously defending why resorting to violence in this case was understandable.Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Sciarra, the Rose Bowl MVP, knocked on the Buckeyes’ locker room door and wanted to talk with Griffin but was turned away.Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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The night ended disastrously for Hill as Pereira knocked him out 3:14 into the first round.Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Delilah Snell, who operates Alta Baja Market, a restaurant and market in Santa Ana, said card swipe fees take at least 3% of her bottom line.Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Average Credit Card Processing Fees and Costs in 2024 U.S. families spent an average of $1,102 on credit and debit card swipe fees in 2023.Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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But Chisholm fell on his brother’s hockey bag and banged his right knee, getting a cut.Joe Smith, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Kapanen got the scoring started, banging home the rebound of a long Connor Brown wrister midway through the first period.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Bop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bop. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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