BP (disambiguation)

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BP has many meanings.

Contents 1 BP 1.1 Businesses 1.2 Places 1.3 People 1.4 Other meanings 2 bp 3 Bp

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In its capitalized form, "BP" can stand for:

[edit] Businesses

• BP, an energy corporation, formerly known as British Petroleum

• British Petroleum Canada, the Canadian subsidiary

• Air Botswana, IATA code.
• Bharat Petroleum, an Indian oil company
• Banco Popular, a financial institution in Puerto Rico
• Boston Pizza, a Canadian restaurant chain
• Broadcast Programming, a distributor of radio formats

[edit] Places

• Bechuanaland Protectorate, the forerunner of modern Botswana
• Solomon Islands --- FIPS country code and (obsolete) NATO country code

[edit] People

• Baden-Powell (Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell), founder of the world Scouting movement (the proper abbreviation is "B-P")
• Bambang Pamungkas, Indonesia national football team player for Persija Jakarta
• Benny Parsons, NASCAR champion in 1973 and former long-time NASCAR commentator
• Bettie Page, famous American 1950s pin-up model
• Bijou Phillips, American actress, model, socialite, and singer, whos father, Papa John Phillips was also a famous musician
• Bill Pullman, character actor known for roles in Space Balls and Independence Day
• Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960
• Brad Pitt, American movie-star and activist
• Brian Pillman

[edit] Other meanings

• Baseball Prospectus, statistical website and series of annuals
• Before Present (sometimes "Before Physics"), a time scale used in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines, meaning years before 1950, and commonly used for dates established by radiocarbon dating.
• Bell's Palsy, a generally temporary paralysis of the face
• Benzoyl peroxide, an acne and teeth whitening medicine, abbreviated as "BP" to modify a commercial name such as "Clearasil BP"
• Big Pimpin', a 2000 hit single for Jay-Z
• Bletchley Park, a British cryptography installation, was referred to as "BP" so that those making inquiries would assume the speaker meant British Petroleum without the speaker having to directly lie
• Bloc Party, a British indie rock band
• Boerenpartij, a Dutch political party
• Bohlen-Pierce scale, a musical scale
• Boron phosphide
• British Parliamentary Style, a debating style
• British Pharmacopoeia, a collection of medical standards, abbreviated as "BP" to signal a conforming ingredient such as "Hydrocortisone BP"
• IF Brommapojkarna, a Swedish football team
• Brooklyn Philharmonic
• Brown–Peterson cohomology
• Mazda BP engine, an automobile engine
• St. Paul’s British Primary School in Brussels, Belgium; commonly abbreviated in script as "BP" after its semi-official name, "the British Primary"

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bp may stand for:

• base pair, in genetics
• binge eating/purging, in describing symptoms of bulimia
• basis point, in finance
• batting practice, baseball jargon referring to when hitters warm up or practice their hitting
• beer pong, a popular drinking game
• bipolar disorder, in psychiatry
• blood pressure, in medicine
• black powder, in pyrotechnics
• boarding pass, in transport
• boiling point, in chemistry
• bad player, in gaming

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Bp may stand for:

• baptized, in genealogy
• Budapest, capital of Hungary
• Bishop, in the Christian Church; when the term Bp. follows the name of a Christian saint it denotes that the saint was a Bishop
• Bp star, a peculiar star of class B (Astronomy).