Usually means: Catchy song, makes you dance.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word BOP:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bop: Merriam-Webster
  2. bop, bop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bop, bop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. BoP, bop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bop, bop: Wordnik
  7. bop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BOP, Bop, bop: Wiktionary
  9. bop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BOP: Dictionary.com
  13. bop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BOP, BoP, Bop (DaBaby song), Bop (Dan Seals song), Bop (magazine), Bop, Bop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. bop: Rhymezone
  17. BOP, bop: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. bop: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOP: bizterms.net
  2. BOP: Investopedia
  3. Bop (party): Legal dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bop (party), bop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BOP: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. BOP: Acronym Finder
  3. BOP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. B.O.P, B.O.P, the bop: Urban Dictionary
  3. Bop: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

(Note: See boping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (BOP)

noun:  (colloquial, onomatopoeia) A very light smack, blow or punch.
verb:  (colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully.
noun:  (uncountable, music) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
noun:  (slang, countable) A good, catchy song; a song that makes one want to dance.
noun:  (countable) A casual party with dancing; a disco.
noun:  (countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.
verb:  To dance to music with a marked beat.
verb:  (informal, ambitransitive) To walk casually; to stroll.
verb:  (slang, ambitransitive) To have sex.
verb:  (slang, ambitransitive) To fellate.
noun:  (slang, offensive) A promiscuous woman, especially in the context of having a high body count or giving fellatio to many men.
noun:  (informal) Bophuthatswana
noun:  (oil industry) Initialism of blowout preventer. [(oil industry) A device that sits at the surface interface of an oil well and prevents a blowout from occurring by closing the orifice, allowing material to flow from the oil reservoir out through the shaft.]
noun:  Initialism of burden of proof. [(law) The duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion; the onus probandi.]
noun:  Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.
noun:  Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac. [A surname.]
noun:  Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.

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