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op

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What does op mean?

noun

  1. (informal) Clipping of opponent; alternative spelling of opp.
  2. (informal) Clipping of operation.
  3. (informal) Clipping of operator.
More meanings (28)

noun

  1. (informal) An amateur radio operator.
  2. (informal) An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.
  3. Clipping of opinion.
  4. Ellipsis of op art.
  5. Alternative letter-case form of OP.
  6. (slang) Alternative form of opp (“opponent; opposition”).
  7. Initialism of Overall Position.
  8. Initialism of opposite prompt; stage right.
  9. Initialism of original poster; the person who started a thread.
  10. Initialism of observation post.
  11. Abbreviation of organophosphate.
  12. (slang) Initialism of other person's; a cigarette cadged from someone.
  13. Abbreviation of outpatient.
  14. Abbreviation of original publishing.
  15. Abbreviation of opening credits.
  16. Abbreviation of opening theme.

verb

  1. To promote (an IRC user) to an operator.
  2. (informal) To buy (something) from an op shop.
  3. (informal) To shop at op shops.

adjective

  1. Alternative letter-case form of OP.
  2. Abbreviation of out of print.
  3. Abbreviation of overproof.
  4. Abbreviation of overpowered.
  5. Initialism of overplayed.

proper noun

  1. Abbreviation of Original Pronunciation
  2. Initialism of Office of the President.
  3. Initialism of Ordo Praedicatorum (Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, a religious order).
  4. Initialism of One Piece.
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In the pages of books

See this word in context.

In the lists that follow, the symbol OP indicates that the book is out of print.
J. Frank (James Frank) DobieGuide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few ObservationsProject Gutenberg ebook #314
Many of the Greenland species, being confined to the peninsula, "would, as it were, be driven into the sea--that is exterminated" (Hooker, op.
Charles DarwinMore Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished LettersProject Gutenberg ebook #2739
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But the traces of the sign, as I have given them (op.
L. W. (Leonard William) KingLegends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew TraditionProject Gutenberg ebook #2030
Besides sober naturalists there were speculative dreamers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who had at least got beyond static formulae, but, as Professor Osborn points out (op.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
Inextricably mixed in dreamy confusion, her mind seemed to enter into communion, to be delightfully expanded and combined with the spirit of the whitish boards on deck, with the spirit of the sea, with the spirit of Beethoven Op.
Virginia WoolfThe Voyage OutProject Gutenberg ebook #144