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GOP
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gop Gòp góp
English
Etymology 1
Grand Old Party
en grand old party, a nickname for the Republican Party, in use by 1884.
Pronunciation
en /ˌdʒi oʊ ˈpi/ GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-GOP.wav US
Proper noun
en US politics The Republican Party, one of the two major political parties in the United States.
en 2005 w:Jesse Helms Ronald Reagan, 1976 Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir https://archive.org/details/hereswhereistand0000helm/ New York w:Random House 0-375-50884-8 2005042795 835465798 103 https://archive.org/details/hereswhereistand0000helm/page/103/ On their behalf, Reagan insisted (over the objections of the Ford forces) that the GOP platform declare that henceforth “the goal of Republican foreign policy is the achievement of liberty under law and a just and lasting peace in the world.”
en Sarah Ferris Speaker Johnson unveils bill to fund the government through September 30 w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/politics/house-funding-bill/index.html 2025-03-08 House GOP leaders believe the plan is on track to pass the chamber, arguing that Trump’s backing will help them win robust support among House Republicans on the floor this week, even as many ultraconservatives typically loathe such stopgap measures. https://web.archive.org/web/20260331060815/https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/politics/house-funding-bill/index.html 31 March 2026
Usage notes
GOP is often used attributively, as in "GOP members", "GOP senator", and so on.
Derived terms
en GOPer GQP
Etymology 2
Group of pictures
en group of pictures, a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream.
Noun
en signal processing video compression en group of pictures.
Derived terms
en closed GOP
en open GOP
Anagrams
en gop GPO PGO POG pog
en Conservatism