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1. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
   - bebop
    
2. [Brit] (informal) a party with dancing to pop music; a disco

1. Dance the bebop
   - bebop
    
2. Hit hard
   "The teacher bopped the boy";
   - sock, whop, whap, bonk, bash, whack, wham, wallop, clock [Brit, informal]
    
3. [Brit] (informal) dance to pop music

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, bopped, bops

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

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

Encyclopedia: Bop