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 The BOP clade (sometimes ''BEP clade'') is one of two major lineages (or clades) of undefined taxonomic rank in the grasses (Poaceae), containing more than 5,400 species, about half of all grasses. Its sister group is the PACMAD clade; contrary ...

, a lineage of plants in the grass family (Poaceae)

Government and law

Balance of power (disambiguation) Balance of power may refer to: Politics and international relations * Balance of power (international relations), parity or stability between competing forces * Balance of power (federalism), distribution of power between a central government and ...

* Balance of probabilities *

Border Observation Post A border outpost, border out post, border observation post or BOPBorder 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! ''Bop!'' is an album by saxophonist Frank Morgan released in 1997 on the Telarc label. Reception The review by AllMusic's Scott Yanow said: "Although all eight selections on this CD have been played many times before, altoist Frank Morgan make ...

'', a 1997 album by jazz saxophonist Frank Morgan *"'Bop'", a 2020 song by

CJ (rapper) Christopher Daniel Soriano Jr. (born January 4, 1997), better known by his stage name CJ, is an American rapper from Staten Island, New York City, New York. He is best known for his 2020 breakout single "Whoopty", which peaked at number 3 on th ...

*"Bop", a 2019 song by Tyga from '' Legendary'' *"Bop!", a 2019 song by JoJo Siwa

Places

Bay of Pigs The Bay of Pigs ( es, Bahía de los Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was reas ...

, 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 The Bay of Plenty ( mi, Te Moana-a-Toi) is a region of New Zealand, situated around a bight of the same name in the northern coast of the North Island. The bight stretches 260 km from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaway ...

, named after the bay * Bophuthatswana, South Africa

Science and technology

Balance of plant Balance of plant (BOP) is a term generally used in the context of power engineering to refer to all the supporting components and auxiliary systems of a power plant needed to deliver the energy, other than the generating unit itself. These may inclu ...

, 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 An illegal opcode, also called an unimplemented operation, unintended opcode or undocumented instruction, is an instruction to a CPU that is not mentioned in any official documentation released by the CPU's designer or manufacturer, which ne ...

(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 Bleeding on probing (BoP) which is also known as bleeding gums or gingival bleeding is a term used by dentists and dental hygienists when referring to bleeding that is induced by gentle manipulation of the tissue at the depth of the gingival sulc ...

, 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 The Border Pacific Railroad is a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States. BOP operates a line from Rio Grande City to an interchange with Union Pacific (via Rio Valley Switching Company) at Mission, Texas. BOP ...

, 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 In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference between all money flowing into the country in a particular period of time (e.g., a ...

, 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 {{disambiguation