Bop

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BOP or Bop may refer to:

• Bop, shortened form of Bebop, an early modern jazz developed in the 1940s
• Hard Bop, a style of jazz music that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music
• Bop (magazine) an American magazine for teens
• Bop (song), a single by Dan Seals, released in 1986
• Bop (glass), a standing glass.
• Bop, a celestial body in Kerbal Space Program

Abbreviations

• Balance of power (disambiguation)
• Balance of probabilities
• Bird-of-paradise, a family of birds
• Bird of prey, eagles, hawks, owls and other raptors
• BOP clade, a lineage of plants in the grass family (Poaceae)
• B.O.P., Boy's Own Paper.
• Best Operating Practice (used by Thames Water to describe operation of water and waste water treatment plants in the UK)
• Border Observation Post, United States Military Border Observation Post
• Bureau of Prisons, United States Bureau of Prisons
• Border outpost, or border observation post
• Breach of the peace (common law)
• Broken orange pekoe, a grade of tea leaves

Science and technology

• Balance of plant, the supporting components and auxiliary systems of a power plant
• Basic oxygen process, a method of steelmaking
• BOP reagent, Benzotriazole-1-yl-oxy-tris-(dimethylamino)-phosphonium hexafluorophosphate
• Blowout preventer, a large valve used in oil or natural gas drilling
• Bond order potential, a form of interatomic potential used, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations

Economics

• Balance of payments, measure of payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries
• Base or bottom of pyramid, the largest, but poorest socio-economic group

Places

• Bay of Pigs, in Cuba; the site of the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion by ex-Cubans, supported by the U.S.
• The Bay of Plenty region, New Zealand
  • The Bay of Plenty, for which the region is named
• Bophuthatswana, South Africa
• Border Pacific Railroad, a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States
• Bowes Park railway station, London, England; National Rail station code BOP

Entities

• Brown Opera Productions, a student-run opera company at Brown University
• bleeding on probing, expression used by dentists to signify gingival (gum) bleeding on mechanical stimulation by a probe
• Federal Bureau of Prisons, a branch of the U.S. Justice Department
• Businessowners policy, a type of insurance policy

Computing

• BIOS operation (bop), used as noun and verb, a technique to transition from 16-bit virtual x86 mode to 32-bit protected mode utilized by Microsoft's NTDOS