Meaning & use
bopping
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Dancing energetically to music, or hitting someone lightly and playfully.
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The kids were bopping around the living room to their favorite songs.
She gave him a gentle bop on the head with the rolled-up newspaper.
A note on using this word
"Bopping" comes from "bop," originally a term for a lively style of jazz music and dance in the 1940s.
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