Bop

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BOP or Bop may refer to:

Animals and plants

• Bird of prey, eagles, hawks, owls and other raptors
• Bird-of-paradise, a family of birds
• BOP clade, a lineage of plants in the grass family (Poaceae)

Government and law

• Balance of power (disambiguation)
• Balance of probabilities
• Border Observation Post, United States Military Border Observation Post
• Border outpost, or border observation post
• Breach of the peace (common law)
• Federal Bureau of Prisons, a branch of the U.S. Justice Department

Music

Music styles

• Bebop, often shortened to "bop", an early modern jazz developed in the 1940s
• Hard bop, a style of jazz music that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music

Songs and albums

• "Bop" (DaBaby song), a 2019 song by DaBaby
• "Bop" (Dan Seals song), a 1986 song by Dan Seals
• Bop!, a 1997 album by jazz saxophonist Frank Morgan
• "'Bop'", a 2020 song by CJ (rapper)
• "Bop", a 2019 song by Tyga from Legendary
• "Bop!", a 2019 song by JoJo Siwa

Places

• Bay of Pigs, in Cuba; the site of the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion by ex-Cubans, supported by the United States
• Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
  • Bay of Plenty Region, named after the bay
• Bophuthatswana, South Africa

Science and technology

• Balance of plant, the supporting components and auxiliary systems of a power plant
• Basic oxygen process, a method of steelmaking
• Best Operating Practice (used by Thames Water to describe operation of water and waste water treatment plants in the UK)
• 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
• Bleeding on probing, expression used by dentists to signify gingival (gum) bleeding on mechanical stimulation by a probe
• Blowout preventer, a large valve used in oil or natural gas drilling
• Bond order potential, a form of interatomic potential used, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations
• BOP reagent, Benzotriazole-1-yl-oxy-tris-(dimethylamino)-phosphonium hexafluorophosphate

Transportation

• Border Pacific Railroad, a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States
• Bowes Park railway station, London, United Kingdom (National Rail station code BOP)
• Bouar Airport, Central African Republic (IATA code BOP)

Other uses

• Bop (magazine) an American magazine for teens
• B.O.P., The Boy's Own Paper
• Balance of payments, measure of payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries
• Bottom of the pyramid or base of the pyramid, the largest, but poorest socio-economic group
• Broken orange pekoe, a grade of tea leaves
• Businessowners policy, a type of insurance policy
• Balance of performance (BoP), a mechanism to maintain parity between cars in auto racing

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This page was last edited on 18 March 2024, at 23:58