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OP
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Appendix:Variations of "op"
English
Etymology 1
en abbreviations Abbreviation.
Noun
~
en w:Overall Position.
en theatre en opposite prompt; stage right.
en original poster en Internet now often without an article en original poster; the person who started a thread.
en OOP OOOP<q:uncommon>
en I don't think your response really answers OPs question.
en Karissa Bell Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments w:Engadget https://www.engadget.com/ai/researchers-secretly-experimented-on-reddit-users-with-ai-generated-comments-194328026.html 2025-04-28 “In addition to the post’s content, LLMs were provided with personal attributes of the OP (gender, age, ethnicity, location, and political orientation), as inferred from their posting history using another LLM,” they write. https://web.archive.org/web/20261005132006/https://www.engadget.com/ai/researchers-secretly-experimented-on-reddit-users-with-ai-generated-comments-194328026.html 5 October 2026
en 2012-01-05 ThatCoolBlackGuy dubstep o2zbq c3e0gg2 Once again this guy defines dubstep dancing. This is NOT fucking called dubstep dancing. Are you fucking retarded OP There is no thing called "hip hop" dancing. There are dances that are FROM hip hop that are used to dance TO hip hop(or many other genres) There is bboying popping locking and then there is this piece of shit called HIP HOP choreo. What the guy was doing is called POPPING , POPPING is considered art by the people who do it (as any other danceform) you and your ignorance is RIDICULING the dance. Again you're a Dumbass.
en military police en w:observation post.
en organic chemistry en organophosphate.
en slang en other person's; a cigarette cadged from someone.
en outpatient.
en IP
en music industry en original publishing.
en SP
Translations
(internet) original poster
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 樓主 lóuzhǔ, cmn 原po yuánpō, cmn po主 pōzhǔ, cmn 贴主 tiēzhǔ
Finnish: fi AP
German: de OP m, de Themenersteller m
Japanese: ja 一 >>1 ichi, ja スレ主 surenushi
Korean: ko
Lithuanian: lt PP m
Russian: ru оп m
Swedish: sv TS c
Thai: th จขกท
Vietnamese: vi chủ thớt
Proper noun
en linguistics en Original Pronunciation
en RP
en Philippines some other countries politics en office of the president.
en religious en Ordo Praedicatorum (Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, a religious order).
en w:One Piece.
Adjective
-
en publishing en out of print.
en OOP
en overproof.
en gaming en overpowered.
en underpowered nerfed
en 2012-08-29 alt.games.warcraft Re: 5.0.4 first blush k1l1nq$emb$1@dont-email.me https://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.warcraft/msg/fbc79793e6169bb7 I know they are going to tweak stuff in the next few weeks with patches as they find one class is OP and another is sucking...
en Internet music en overplayed.
Etymology 2
From en ja OP (ja オープニング), from en en opening.
Noun
- s
en initialism en opening credits.
en ED
en initialism en opening theme.
en ED
References
http://www.answers.com/topic/op
Further reading
Office of the President of the Philippines
Anagrams
en op P.O. PO Po Pô po po'
en 4chan slang
Chinese
Etymology 1
From zh ja OP (ja オープニング), from zh en opening.
Pronunciation
ōupì ou1 pi1 n
Noun
zh noun
zh chiefly ACG opening theme, intro sequence
Coordinate terms
ED
Etymology 2
Initialism of zh en Ocean Park.
Pronunciation
ou1 pi1 pn
Proper noun
zh proper noun
zh Hong Kong Ocean Park Hong Kong
German
Etymology
medical senses From the first two syllables of de Operation.
Pronunciation
de /oˈpeː/
de De-OP.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
f,s
de surgery also colloquial de Operation
de Ope<q:earlier>
Declension
f,s
Descendants
ja オペ ope 1
Noun
m,-:s,-:s
de surgery de Operationssaal
de electronics de Operationsverstärker
Declension
m,-:s,-:s
Noun
n,-:s,-:s
de EU politics de operationelles Programm
Declension
n,-:s,-:s
Further reading
Japanese
Etymology 1
From オープニング, from ja en opening.
Noun
オープニング
ja entertainment opening theme, intro sequence; ja オープニング
Coordinate terms
ED エンディング
Descendants
en OP
zh OP
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
オープン
Noun
オープン
ja sports ja オープン open sports event that anybody can compete ōpun
全%米%OP ^ぜん%べい% ^オープン U.S. Open U.S. Open
全%豪%OP ^ぜん%ごう% ^オープン Australian Open Australian Open
ja terms written in foreign scripts