boops

See also: Boops

English

Noun

boops

1. plural of boop

Verb

boops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of boop

Jamaican Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊps/

Interjection

boops

1. boom
   • 2018, Shelley Sykes-Coley, Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations, →ISBN:

     “Me waan fi know why is always night, dat dem decide fi tun off di light? An' why, dat fram di day mi bawn, as likkle rain fall, boops! Di light gawn! […] ”

     I want to know why they always decide to cut the power at night. Why is that, in my entire life, as soon as it starts to rain, boom! There's a blackout. […]

Noun

boops (plural boops dem, quantified boops)

1. sugar daddy

   Me did have a little boops who did well want a baby. ― I had a sugar daddy who really wanted to have a baby.

   • 2014, Alan Bradshaw, Avi Shankar, Production & Consumption of Music (in English), →ISBN:

     “Women who engage in these long term profitable relationships call their benefactor a “Boops.” The Boops is usually a man of means who gives money and gifts in exchange for sex with his favored women heard in “Boops” by Super Cat (1986): ... […] ”

Related terms

• brinks

References

• Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 111
• boops – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary