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 (song), a single by Dan Seals, released in 1986
• Bop, to drop to one's haunches or squat, as in 'bop down'.
• Bop (glass), a standing glass.
• Bop, a celestial body in Kerbal Space Program

Abbreviations

• Broken Orange Pekoe, a popular type of leaf tea
• Balance of power (disambiguation)
• Balance of probabilities
• Border Observation Post, United States Military Border Observation Post
• Bureau of Prisons, United States Bureau of Prisons
• Blowout preventer, a large valve used in oil or natural gas drilling
• Bird-of-paradise, a family of birds
• Border outpost, or border observation post
• 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.
• BOP reagent, Benzotriazole-1-yl-oxy-tris-(dimethylamino)-phosphonium hexafluorophosphate
• Breach of the peace (common law)
• Best Operating Practice (used by Thames Water to describe operation of water and waste water treatment plants in the UK)
• 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
• Bop, South Sudan, a small village in South Sudan

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
• 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 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

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
• BOP, binary protocol for a fast serialization of objects