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, a legal standard of proof
  • Board of Peace, an international organization led by Donald Trump
  • 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 Bop", a 2015 song by Romanian singer Inna
  • "Bop Bop!", a 2022 song by Viviz
  • "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
  • "BOP!", a 2024 EP and song by Vanessa Williams, Trixie Mattel, and LION BABE

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, a designation for best practice notably 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, United Kingdom (National Rail station code BOP)
  • 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: Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac, e.g. Bellhousing Patterns, or Rear Axle Design
  • Station code for Bogor Paledang railway station, Indonesia

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
  • Bop it!, a handheld toy made by Hasbro
  • Bop TV, television station from South Africa
  • Bank of Punjab, a provincial bank in Pakistan