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'''BOP''' or '''bop''' may refer to:
* bop, a [[Smacking|smack]], [[Strike (attack)|strike]], or [[Punch (strike)|punch]]
* 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 (magazine)|Bop]]'' an American magazine for teens
*''[[Bop (Dan Seals song)|Bop]]'', a single by [[Dan Seals]], released in 1986
*[[Bird of Prey]], eagles, owls and other such carnivorous [[raptors]]
==Abbreviations==
===Places===
* [[Bay of Pigs]], in Cuba; also a place of a failed American battle
* [[Bay of Plenty]], a region in New Zealand
* [[Bophuthatswana]], South Africa
* [[Border Pacific Railroad]] (AAR reporting marks BOP), a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States
* [[Bowes Park railway station]], [[London]], [[England]]; [[National Rail]] station code BOP
===Entities===
* [[balance of payments]], measures the payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries
* [[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 [[Insurance#Types of insurance|type of insurance policy]]
* [[Balance of Power]]
* [[Brown Opera Productions]], a student-run opera company at Brown University
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