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BOP or bop may refer to:

• bop, a smack, strike, or punch
• bop, (to bop or boppin') a style to dance solo to Rockabilly or Blues music, Common since to 50s till today See Dance the Bop
• 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, west coast U.S. word for whore
• Bop an American magazine for teens
• Bop, a single by Dan Seals, released in 1986
• Association Bricolages Ondulatoires et Particulaires, BOP name is french, it could be translated as: "wave and particle craft", BOP is an association whose goal is to promote film photography.

Contents 1 Abbreviations 1.1 In economics 1.2 Places 1.3 Entities

[edit] Abbreviations

• Bureau of Prisons - United States Bureau of Prisons.
• Blow Out Preventer
• Bird of paradise
• Bird of prey, eagles, owls and other raptors
• BOP reagent, Benzotriazole-1-yl-oxy-tris-(dimethylamino)-phosphonium hexafluorophosphate
• Breach of the peace (common law)
• Brew on Premises
• Big Open Party, name of university-wide parties organized by the college common rooms at the University of Oxford.
• Best Operating Practice (used by Thames Water to describe operation of water and waste water treatment plants in the UK)

[edit] In 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.

[edit] Places

• Bay of Pigs, in Cuba; the site of the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion by ex-Cubans, supported by the U.S.
• Bay of Plenty, a region in New Zealand
• 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

[edit] Entities

• Brown Opera Productions, a student-run opera company at Brown University
• balance of payments, measures the payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries
• balance of plant. balance of a fuel cell system
• bleeding on probing, expression used by dentists to signify gingival (gum) bleeding on mechanical stimulation by a probe
• 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
• Bond Order Potential, a form of interatomic potential used, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations

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