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bopper en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɒpəɹ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From bop + -er.

Meanings

  1. (dated, informal) A person who dances the bop.
  2. (dated, informal) A musician who plays the bop genre.
  3. (dated, informal) A teenybopper.
    • […] teeny-bopper long before I hit 11. At 11 you couldn't be a teenager but you could be a bopper, wear bobby socks and bop around and the other boppers would get crushes on you. 1999, Susan Holbrook, Misled, page 18:

Forms

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boppers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

weeny-bopper · teenybopper

Relateds

deely bopper

Synonyms

boppist