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boop¹

  • /buːp/

Rhymes with -uːp

Where it comes from

Imitative; compare beep.

noun boops

  1. A low-pitched beeping sound. When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever.
  2. colloquial A gentle or playful tap or strike, especially on the nose. “Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose!” “He's bypassing our shields. We can't take many more boops.” “Thanks to Father giving me full access to Starfleet data systems, I know all possible shield frequencies. Boop!”

verb boops · booping · booped

  1. intransitive To produce a low-pitched beeping sound. The music on “LP” is almost entirely unnatural, booping and puffing, buzzing and ticking in tones no acoustic instrument would make.
  2. colloquial, transitive To strike gently or playfully; to bop (especially on the nose). He spun around and booped me on the nose.

Boop²

Where it comes from

Altered form of German Bub.

proper noun Boops

  1. A surname from German.

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@misc{boop_2026,
  title = {boop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/boop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}