bebop

[bee-bop] /ˈbiˌbɒp/

noun, Jazz.

bop¹ .

Origin

1940-45, Americanism; probably from the nonsense syllables typical of scat singing

Related forms

bebopper, noun

Examples from the web for bebop

Groups playing bebop were smaller than the large swing orchestras.
Their style of jazz music was known as bebop or simply bop.
In the wake of bebop, jazz had become a music of enormous harmonic complexity.
Jazz drummer whose rhythmic innovations defined bebop.
Instead, bebop appeared to sound racing, nervous, and often fragmented.

British Dictionary definitions for bebop

bebop

/ˈbiːbɒp/

noun

the full name for bop¹ (sense 1)

Derived Forms

bebopper, noun

Word Origin

C20: imitative of the rhythm of the music

Word Origin and History for bebop

1944, from bebop, rebop, bop, nonsense words in jazz lyrics, attested from at least 1928. The style is associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Slang definitions & phrases for bebop

bebop

Related Terms

bop

bebop in Technology

language
A language combining sequential and parallel logic programming, object-oriented and meta-level programming. Both don't know nondeterminism and stream AND-parallelism. Prolog theories are first order entities and may be updated or passed in messages. BeBOP is implemented by translation to NU-Prolog and PNU-Prolog.
(ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/bebop.tar.Z).
E-mail: Andrew Davidson .
(1996-10-27)