Bop

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
 * 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 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!, 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

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 (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

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