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🎷 To play jazz 🎷 A jazz style
to rebop

to rebop

1 9.9
To play fast, lively jazz with quick notes and skilled solos
  • verb
  • /ˈriːbɒp/
  • Archaic
translation icon : rebop
  • During the jam session, the musicians decided to rebop to challenge each other's skills.

Examples

  • He loves to rebop at the club every weekend, showcasing his best improvisations.

  • - Blues, two-beat Dixie, rebop and...

    A Song Is Born (1948)

  • The jazz band began to rebop as the audience cheered for more upbeat tunes.

Synonyms

to jazz
vsto rebop
1 4.2

To play music in a lively style where players make up parts

emphasizes very fast tempos and more complex improvisation than the broader style

Surface Forms

rebop infinitive
rebopped past
rebopped past participle
rebopping present participle
rebops third person singular

Morphology

rebop = rebop (semi-transparent) = re + bop

As a denominal verb, it straightforwardly means 'to play or perform rebop'.

Etymology

Rebop as a verb uses the same parts: re- 'again' plus bop (to play lively jazz), so to rebop a tune is to play it again in that fast, improvising bebop style.