bop

What it means

A genuinely great, catchy song, especially one you can't stop playing or dancing to. If a track is an instant hit with you, it's a bop.

Examples

• This new single is an absolute bop, I've played it 50 times.
• Every song on that album is a bop, no skips.
• Turn it up, this is such a bop!
• I didn't expect to like it but ngl it's a bop.

Where it comes from

Music slang dating back decades (linked to jazz and 'bebop'), it was revived by Gen Z on Twitter and TikTok in the late 2010s as the go-to word for a great song.

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