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PP en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of parish priest.
    • Whose is that car? Do you see it she said, parking at the gate? Oh God let it not be the PP and the state of the place. 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 11:
    • Bequests also: to the P. P. for the time being in his absolute discretion. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 80:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of polypropylene.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of precocious puberty.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of performance points.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of prepositional phrase.
    • partitive PP
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of postpositional phrase.
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of past participle.
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of power play.
    alt of power play
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of promenade position.
  11. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of pussy pass.
    alt of pussy pass
  12. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
    alt of pee-pee
  13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of public parking.
  14. (Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of planning permission.
  15. (India, Malaysia, Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of public prosecutor.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
PPs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

pres. part. · NP · pres.part. · VP

Relateds

p. p. · p.p. · pp. · pp

Translations (2)

fr SP (prepositional phrase) · de PP (prepositional phrase)

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

PP en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of PowerPoint.
    alt of PowerPoint
    • PP’s enthusiasts claim that it emboldens nervous speakers and forces everyone to present information in an ordered way. […] The presentational precursor to PowerPoint was the overhead projector, which is why PP screens are still called “slides”. 2015 September 23, Andrew Smith, “How PowerPoint is killing critical thought”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2018:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of PayPal.
    alt of PayPal
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Planned Parenthood.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Puzzle Pirates.
  5. (Spanish, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Partido Popular (“People's Party”): a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Spain.
    • Nowadays, for example, voting for the Socialist Party can mean a leftist coalition between the Socialists and Podemos, the anti-establishment party, or a center-right one among the Socialists, the center right Ciudadanos and Partido Popular; a vote for Ciudadanos may yield a right-wing alliance with the P.P. or a centrist one with the Socialists. 2016 August 28, Martín Caparrós, “Spain: A Country With No Government”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
    • Although the PP won the most seats, it fell short of a parliamentary majority and has proved unable to form a government, even with the support of the far-right Vox party and other, smaller political groupings. 2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
Source: en.wiktionary, “PP” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

PP en · X

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of play or pay.
    alt of pay
    alt of play
    • ‘Well, I’ll bet you half a dozen of claret on it; come!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, resuming the conversation to which Mr. Pell’s entrance had caused a momentary interruption. […] ‘I never bet half a dozen!’ said the other gentleman. ‘I’ll take a dozen.’ ‘Done, Simmery, done!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. ‘P. P., mind,’ observed the other. 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC: