Bop

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BOP or bop may refer to:

  • bop, a smack, strike, or punch
  • bop, shortened form of Bebop, an early modern jazz developed in the 1940s
    • hard bop, a style of jazz music that is extension of bebop (or "bop") music
  • bop, organised party or club night at many British universities
  • bop, southern U.S. word for whore

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  • balance of payments, measures the payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries
  • Bay of Plenty, a region in New Zealand
  • bleeding on probing, expression used by dentists
  • blowout preventer, a large valve that encases an oil well at surface, in oil and gas drilling
  • Border Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting marks BOP), a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States
  • Bottom of the Pyramid (or Base of the Pyramid, or Bottom of the Pile); a reference to the large class of those in extreme poverty
  • Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac. An acronym denoting common parts and specifications across engine and automobile offerings from these three General Motors divisions.
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