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), 2019 "Bop" (Dan Seals song), 1986 "Bop" (Mondo song), 2025 Bop!, a 1997 album by jazz saxophonist Frank Morgan "Bop", a 2020 song by CJ "Bop", a 2023 song by Davido from Timeless "Bop", a 2019 song by Tyga from Legendary, with YG and Blueface "Bop", a 2024 song by Usher from Coming Home "Bop", a 2023 song by YoungBoy Never Broke Again from Decided 2 "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 Bop, a fictional planet in the Kerbal Space Program video game