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op

noun
/ɒp/UK/ɑp/US

Etymology

From Japanese OP (OP) (オープニング), from English opening.

  1. derived from opening
  2. borrowed from OP

Definitions

  1. Clipping of opponent.

    • His ops went to his court hearing today.

  2. Clipping of operation.

    • My mother's going in for her knee op today.

  3. Clipping of operator.

    • Even given the same direction, two camera ops will see and shoot somewhat differently. A good eye and an ability to concentrate and quickly follow directions are necessary for this position.
    • Give the camera op a wide berth when he or she is shooting on Steadicam. When doing so, camera ops usually have virtually no peripheral vision, and their spatial awareness may be impaired by the giant, heavy camera attached to [them].
  4. ›+ 25 more definitions

    1. Clipping of opinion.

      • Ops on my new drawing?

    2. Ellipsis of op art.

      • an op painting; op artworks

    3. To promote (an IRC user) to an operator.

    4. Alternative letter-case form of OP.

    5. Alternative form of opp (“opponent

      Alternative form of opp (“opponent; opposition”).

    6. To buy (something) from an op shop.

    7. To shop at op shops.

    8. Initialism of Overall Position.

    9. Initialism of opposite prompt

      Initialism of opposite prompt; stage right.

    10. Initialism of original poster

      Initialism of original poster; the person who started a thread.

      • I don't think your response really answers OP's question.
      • “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.

    11. Initialism of original post.

    12. Initialism of observation post.

    13. Abbreviation of organophosphate.

    14. Initialism of other person's

      Initialism of other person's; a cigarette cadged from someone.

    15. Abbreviation of outpatient.

    16. Abbreviation of original publishing.

    17. Abbreviation of Original Pronunciation

    18. Initialism of Office of the President.

    19. Initialism of Ordo Praedicatorum (Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, a religious order).

    20. Abbreviation of out of print.

    21. Abbreviation of overproof.

    22. Abbreviation of overpowered.

      • 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...

    23. Initialism of overplayed.

    24. Abbreviation of opening credits.

    25. Abbreviation of opening theme.

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Derived

black op, chanop, exaop, gigaop, grow op, half-op, IRCop, nonop, non-op, no-op, opcode, op-ed, opless, opster, petaop, post-op, pre-op, psyop, siteop, teleop, teraop

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for op. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA