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 to 50s till today
• 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

Abbreviations

BIG FART CRAP PISS

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

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
• 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
• Bond Order Potential, a form of interatomic potential used, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations