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BOP en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:oil industry) Initialism of blowout preventer.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of burden of proof.

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Source: en.wiktionary, “BOP” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

BOP en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.
    • […] and myself under the table with the B.O.P., making believe that the tablecloth is a tent. 1939, George Orwell, "Coming up for Air", London: Victor Gollancz. (p. 46 in Penguin edition 1962.)
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac.
    alt of Buick
    alt of Oldsmobile
    alt of Pontiac
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.
    • "To be frank, at first I thought it was a joke," Hugh Hurwitz, who served as acting director of the BOP between May 2018 and August 2019, told the BBC. 2025 July 17, Bernd Debusmann Jr, “Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a prison - could it happen?”, in BBC: