bebopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːbɒp/

名詞

bebop (uncountable)

1. (music) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.

動詞

bebop (三人称単数 現在形 bebops, 現在分詞 bebopping, 過去形および過去分詞形 bebopped)

1. (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
   • 1988 September 2, Bill Wyman, “Terms of interment: retrospecting the Ramones and the Clash”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Six months into their career, the Clash already showed themselves the equal of any rock band that had come before them, simply by assaulting the last frontier of rock mythology: the notion that the rock audience, like some sort of bebopping proletariat, was a receptacle of goodness and hope, and that rock 'n' roll offered redemption.

   • 2007 November 26, Brooks Barnes, “Laugh Lines in the Hollywood Strike”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     “The studios think we are having a horrible time out here,” said Richard Potter, a screenwriter who made “Strike Dancing,” a YouTube video showing pickets bebopping in formation to “Play That Funky Music.”

2. (intransitive, usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.
   • 1986, Steve Estes, Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman, Slain by Terrorists, Zondervan Publishing Company (→ISBN)

     Typically one could spot Chet bebopping down the sidewalk in an Amish hat, or hunched over a cafeteria table discussing Calvinism or the Vietnam war.

   • 2001, Patsy Clairmont, The Best Devotions of Patsy Clairmont, Zondervan Publishing Company (→ISBN)

     I can't even say it was the people who board and casually whack off the top of your head with their slung-over-the-shoulder carry-ons as they obliviously bebop down the aisle to locate their seats.

   • 2013, Beth Kendrick, The Week Before the Wedding, Penguin (→ISBN)

     Summer bebopped over, holding a cup of spiked punch in each hand.

派生語

• bebopper

Further reading

• bebop on Wikipedia.