MCP en · ADJ
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of metacarpophalangeal.
alt of metacarpophalangeal
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MCP en · NOUN
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(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, dated, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of male chauvinist pig.
alt of male chauvinist pig
If that makes him sound like a male chauvinist, well, he appeared at a recent conference in Houston wearing a tie emblazoned with boar heads and the monogram MCP.
1976 January 23, Nicholas Wade, “Edward Goldsmith: Blueprint for a De-industrialized Society”, in Science, volume 191, number 4224, →JSTOR, page 270:Bottom line, an MCP was a guy who put more value on men than he did on women. Paradoxically, some MCPs put their women up on a pedestal—a statue of his fantasy—and that's where their women were supposed to stay.
2012 May 1, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN:
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(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of membrane cofactor protein.
alt of membrane cofactor protein
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(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, qualifier:machine learning, uncountable) Initialism of memory-context processing.
alt of memory-context processing
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MCP en · PROPN
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(abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism) Initialism of Microsoft Certified Professional, former certification program.
alt of former certification program
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(Malaysia, Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism) Initialism of Malayan Communist Party, officially the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).
alt of Malayan Communist Party
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:artificial intelligence) Initialism of Model Context Protocol, an open protocol that allows AI agents to cooperate.
alt of Model Context Protocol
MCP, or Model Context Protocol, began as a passion project from two Anthropic employees, but since its creation in mid-2024, it’s been widely adopted by companies like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Cursor. There are even hints that Apple will use MCP in its forthcoming AI-enabled version of Siri.
2025 December 10, Hayden Field, “AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key. MCP has already taken the industry by storm, and now Anthropic is giving it away”, in The Verge: