bopper

A person who dances the bop.

Noun

  1. A person who dances the bop.
  2. A musician who plays the bop genre.

    Synonyms: boppist

  3. 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:

Origin

Etymology tree English bop Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bopper From bop + -er.

Forms

boppers

Related

deely bopper

Derived

teenybopper weeny-bopper