BOP

BOP

1. (international standards, historical) ISO 4217 currency code for the former Bolivian peso; a currency used from 1963 to 1986.

BOP (plural BOPs)

1. (oil industry) Initialism of blowout preventer.
2. Initialism of burden of proof.

• LMRP

BOP

1. Initialism of Boy's Own Paper.
   • 1939, George Orwell, "Coming up for Air", London: Victor Gollancz. (p. 46 in Penguin edition 1962.)

     […] and myself under the table with the B.O.P., making believe that the tablecloth is a tent.

2. Initialism of Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac.
3. Initialism of Bureau of Prisons.

• BPO, OBP, PBO