noun

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

verb

• (intransitive) To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.
  "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."
• (intransitive, usually with a directional preposition) To walk in an easygoing, carefree manner.
  "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."