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
- Bop an American magazine for teens
- Bop, a single by Dan Seals, released in 1986
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[edit] Places
- Bay of Plenty, a region in New Zealand
- Bophuthatswana, South Africa
- Border Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting marks BOP), a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States
- Bowes Park railway station, London, England; National Rail station code BOP
[edit] Entities
- balance of payments, measures the payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries
- bleeding on probing, expression used by dentists to signify gingival (gum) bleeding on mechanical stimulation by a probe
- blowout preventer, a large valve that encases an oil well at surface, in oil and gas drilling
- 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.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons, a branch of the U.S. Justice Department
- Businessowners policy, a type of insurance policy
- Balance of Power
- Brown Opera Productions, a student-run opera company at Brown University