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, England; National Rail station 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