BOP

See also: bop, Bop, bóp, bớp, and вор

Translingual

Symbol

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.

See also

• LMRP

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:

     "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.

Anagrams

• BPO, OBP, PBO