Meaning & use
Bebopping
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Playing, dancing, or moving energetically in the style of bebop, a fast, improvisational jazz form; more loosely, moving about cheerfully.
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The trio kept bebopping through the changes long after midnight.
The kids came bebopping down the hallway, headphones blasting.
A note on using this word
"Bebop" itself is thought to imitate the two-note rhythmic phrase common in the jazz style pioneered by musicians like Charlie Parker in the 1940s.
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