BOP

See also: bop, Bop, bóp, bớp, and вор

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BOP

  1. (international standards, historical) ISO 4217 currency code for the former Bolivian peso; a currency used from 1963 to 1986.

English

Noun

BOP (plural BOPs)

  1. (oil industry) Initialism of blowout preventer.
  2. Initialism of burden of proof.

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Proper noun

BOP

  1. Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.
    • 1939, George Orwell, "Coming up for Air", London: Victor Gollancz. (p. 46 in Penguin edition 1962.)
      […] and myself under the table with the B.O.P., making believe that the tablecloth is a tent.
  2. Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac.
  3. Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.
    • 2025 July 17, Bernd Debusmann Jr, “Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a prison - could it happen?”, in BBC‎[1]:
      "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.

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