Meanings
present singular third person bops the bishop · participle present bopping the bishop · participle past bopped the bishop · past bopped the bishop
- idiomaticslangTo masturbate (male).
Were priests allowed, as Russell had said, to bop the bishop?
2017, Lief Wright, Robby the R-Word, →OCLC, page 1073 more examples
Five men's faces and penises. Each bops the bishop and blows a wad. Simple enough, but curiously abstracted.
1996 November, James Hannaham, “Pecs, thighs, and videotape”, in The Village Voice, page 20There’s also much to learn here – for instance, I never knew that some of my brethren refer to yanking their crank as “bopping the bishop.”
[1999 March 4, David Wild, “Private Dicks: Men Exposed”, in Rolling Stone, page 95We may not “tug the slug” or “pump the python.” Nor, routinely, do we “bop the bishop” or “make the bald man puke.” But listen. We surely burp the baby, we toss the salad, we choke the chicken[…]
2000 September, Michael Blumlein, “Fidelity: A Primer”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 99Synonyms: masturbate
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo masturbate (male).
Origin
Uncertain; see bash the bishop.
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