BOC

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BOC may mean:

• The BOC Group (more commonly known as "BOC"), a multi-national industrial gas company, known as the British Oxygen Company prior to 1975

• Bag of Crap, Woot.com's random sale item similar to a grab bag
• Baltimore Opera Company, an opera company in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Bank of Canada, Canada's central bank
• Bank of China, a major state-owned bank in the People's Republic of China
• Bell Operating Company, any one of the 24 local telephone companies that AT&T either owned or had a stake in prior to January 1, 1984
• Biology of the Cell, an academic journal in biology
• Bird Observation & Conservation Australia, an Australian birding association
• Bloque Obrero y Campesino, (Spanish: "Workers and Peasants' Bloc"), a former a leftwing group in Spain, associated with the international Right Opposition, extant from 1931 to 1935
• Blue Öyster Cult, an American psychedelic/heavy metal band
• Boards of Canada, a Scottish electronic music duo
• BOC group, a plan by Roger Bonham Smith to consolidate the GM assembly lines of Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac
• Team BOC, the sponsored identity of Brad Jones Racing, an auto racing team competing in the Australian V8 Supercar series
• British Orthodox Church, an autonomous Oriental Orthodox Church under the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria
• Bulgarian Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committee of Bulgaria, part of the International Olympic Committee
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church, an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with adherents in the Republic of Bulgaria and worldwide
• BUMP OF CHICKEN, a Japanese rock band
• Di-tert-butyl dicarbonate (abbreviated as "Boc", "BOC" or "t-Boc"), a protecting group in organic and peptide chemistry