# Bop

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**BOP** or **Bop** may refer to:

## Animals and plants

- [Bird of prey](/source/Bird_of_prey), eagles, hawks, owls and other raptors
- [Bird-of-paradise](/source/Bird-of-paradise), a family of birds
- [BOP clade](/source/BOP_clade), a lineage of plants in the grass family (Poaceae)

## Government and law

- [Balance of power (disambiguation)](/source/Balance_of_power_(disambiguation))
- [Balance of probabilities](/source/Balance_of_probabilities), a legal standard of proof
- [Board of Peace](/source/Board_of_Peace), an international organization led by Donald Trump
- [Border Observation Post](/source/Border_Observation_Post), United States Military Border Observation Post
- [Border outpost](/source/Border_outpost), or border observation post
- [Breach of the peace](/source/Breach_of_the_peace) (common law)
- [Federal Bureau of Prisons](/source/Federal_Bureau_of_Prisons), a branch of the U.S. Justice Department

## Music

### Music styles

- [Bebop](/source/Bebop), often shortened to "bop", an early modern jazz developed in the 1940s
- [Hard bop](/source/Hard_bop), a style of jazz music that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music

### Songs and albums

- "[Bop Bop](/source/Bop_Bop)", a 2015 song by Romanian singer Inna
- "[Bop Bop!](/source/Bop_Bop!)", a 2022 song by Viviz
- ["Bop" (DaBaby song)](/source/Bop_(DaBaby_song)), a 2019 song by DaBaby
- ["Bop" (Dan Seals song)](/source/Bop_(Dan_Seals_song)), a 1986 song by Dan Seals
- *[Bop!](/source/Bop!)*, a 1997 album by jazz saxophonist Frank Morgan
- "Bop", a 2020 song by [CJ (rapper)](/source/CJ_(rapper))
- "Bop", a 2019 song by Tyga from *[Legendary](/source/Legendary_(Tyga_album))*
- "Bop!", a 2019 song by [JoJo Siwa](/source/JoJo_Siwa)
- "BOP!", a 2024 EP and song by [Vanessa Williams](/source/Vanessa_Williams), [Trixie Mattel](/source/Trixie_Mattel), and [LION BABE](/source/Lion_Babe)

## Places

- [Bay of Pigs](/source/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](/source/Bay_of_Plenty), New Zealand - [Bay of Plenty Region](/source/Bay_of_Plenty_Region), named after the bay
- [Bophuthatswana](/source/Bophuthatswana), South Africa

## Science and technology

- [Balance of plant](/source/Balance_of_plant), the supporting components and auxiliary systems of a power plant
- [Basic oxygen process](/source/Basic_oxygen_steelmaking), a method of steelmaking
- Best Operating Practice, a designation for [best practice](/source/Best_practice) notably used by [Thames Water](/source/Thames_Water), to describe operation of water and waste water treatment plants in the UK
- [BIOS operation](/source/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](/source/Bleeding_on_probing), expression used by dentists to signify gingival (gum) bleeding on mechanical stimulation by a probe
- [Blowout preventer](/source/Blowout_preventer), a large valve used in oil or natural gas drilling
- [Bond order potential](/source/Bond_order_potential), a form of interatomic potential used, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations
- [BOP reagent](/source/BOP_reagent), Benzotriazole-1-yl-oxy-tris-(dimethylamino)-phosphonium hexafluorophosphate

## Transportation

- [Border Pacific Railroad](/source/Border_Pacific_Railroad), a short-line railroad headquartered in Rio Grande City, Texas, United States
- [Bowes Park railway station](/source/Bowes_Park_railway_station), London, United Kingdom (National Rail station code BOP)
- [Bouar Airport](/source/Bouar_Airport), Central African Republic (IATA code BOP)
- BOP, an acronym applied as an adjective to components or technologies that are common between three Divisions of [General Motors](/source/General_Motors): [Buick](/source/Buick), [Oldsmobile](/source/Oldsmobile), and [Pontiac](/source/Pontiac_(automobile)), e.g. [Bellhousing Patterns](/source/List_of_GM_bellhousing_patterns), or Rear Axle Design
- Station code for [Bogor Paledang railway station](/source/Bogor_Paledang_railway_station), Indonesia

## Other uses

- [*Bop* (magazine)](/source/Bop_(magazine)) an American magazine for teens
- *B.O.P.*, *The [Boy's Own Paper](/source/Boy's_Own_Paper)*
- [Balance of payments](/source/Balance_of_payments), measure of payments that flow between any individual country and all other countries
- [Bottom of the pyramid](/source/Bottom_of_the_pyramid) or base of the pyramid, the largest, but poorest socio-economic group
- Broken orange pekoe, a [grade of tea leaves](/source/Tea_leaf_grading)
- Businessowners policy, a [type of insurance policy](/source/Types_of_insurance)
- [Balance of performance](/source/Balance_of_performance) (BoP), a mechanism to maintain parity between cars in auto racing
- [Bop it!](/source/Bop_It), a handheld toy made by [Hasbro](/source/Hasbro)
- [Bop TV](/source/Bop_TV), television station from [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)
- [Bank of Punjab](/source/Bank_of_Punjab), a provincial bank in Pakistan

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