Bop

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 the 1950s
• 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. slang for whore
• Bop (magazine) an American magazine for teens
• Bop (Dan Seals song), a single by Dan Seals, released in 1986

Abbreviations

• Border Observation Post - United States Military Border Observation Post.
• Bureau of Prisons - United States Bureau of Prisons.
• Blow Out Preventer - a large valve used in oil or natural gas drilling
• Business Owners Policy
• Bird of paradise - a family of birds
• Border outpost / Border out post or Border observation post
• Bill of process - in Product lifecycle management
• 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)
• Bind on Pickup, Items that become bound to a character in MMORPGS upon looting
• Basic Oxygen Process - a method of steelmaking

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.

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
• 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
• 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
• Balance of Plant, a logical section in nuclear power plants and boiler control systems
• Bond Order Potential, a form of interatomic potential used, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations