op
/ɒp/US/ɑp/
op noun: an amateur radio operator. Also the clipping of opponent.
Noun (1)
op (plural ops)
- An amateur radio operator.
- An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.
Verb (1)
op (third-person singular simple present ops, present participle opping, simple past and past participle opped)
- To promote (an IRC user) to an operator.
- True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem. Suppose someone joins the room after the user is opped and before the user is deopped.1999, Cory McWilliams, “IRC Oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet)
- Antonyms:
- deop
Verb (2)
op (third-person singular simple present ops, present participle opping, simple past and past participle opped)
- To buy (something) from an op shop.
- To shop at op shops.
Noun (2) capitalized: OP
OP (countable and uncountable, plural OPs)
- Initialism of Overall Position.
- Initialism of opposite prompt; stage right.
- 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.2025 April 28, Karissa Bell, “Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments”, in Engadget
- Initialism of observation post.
- Abbreviation of organophosphate.
- Initialism of other person's; a cigarette cadged from someone.
- Abbreviation of outpatient.
- Antonyms:
- IP
- Abbreviation of original publishing.
Proper noun capitalized: OP
OP
- Abbreviation of Original Pronunciation
- Initialism of Office of the President.
- Initialism of Ordo Praedicatorum (Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, a religious order).
- Initialism of One Piece.
Adjective capitalized: OP
OP (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of out of print.
- Synonyms:
- OOP
- Abbreviation of overproof.
- 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...2012 August 29, “Re: 5.0.4 first blush”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet), message-ID <k1l1nq$emb$1@dont-email.me>
- Antonyms:
- underpowered, nerfed
- Initialism of overplayed.
Noun (3) capitalized: OP
OP (usually uncountable, plural OPs)
- Abbreviation of opening credits.
- Antonyms:
- ED
- Abbreviation of opening theme.
- Antonyms:
- ED
Also used as
op is also the clipping of opponent.
op is also the clipping of operation.
op is also the clipping of operator.
op is also the clipping of opinion.
op is also the ellipsis of op art.
op is also the alternative letter-case form of OP.
op meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
op in Hindi
- ऑप, ओप
op in Tamil
- ஓப்
op in Marathi
- ऑप, ओप
op in Urdu
- اوپی, او پی
More languagesFewer languages
- op in Bengali
- অপ
- op in Telugu
- ఆప్, ఒప్
- op in Malayalam
- ഓപ്, ഒപ്
- op in Kannada
- ಒಪ್
- op in Punjabi
- ਓਪ
- op in Gujarati
- ઓપ, ઑપ
- op in Nepali
- ओप, ऑप
Examples of op in a sentence
- “We’re going to make people do the opłatek thing,” says Lasky.
- The connection with opīnor ‘to suspect’ is difficult for semantic reasons; EM regard it with scepsis.
- It didn′t have that op shop smell, even, and for once there were young people working there.
Synonyms of op
Antonyms
Forms of op
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ops |
| plural | OPs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ops |
| present participle | opping |
| past participle | opped |
| past | opped |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more op |
| superlative | most op |
Origin of op
From op shop.
Abbreviation.
From Japanese OP (OP) (オープニング), from English opening.
Words formed from op
Phrases with op
Words that rhyme with op
44 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about op
- What does op mean?
- Op means an amateur radio operator.
- What is op in Hindi?
- Op in Hindi is ऑप, ओप. See Op meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is op?
- Op can be a noun, a verb, a proper noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce op?
- Op is pronounced /ɒp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of op?
- The plural of op is ops.
Words near op in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: op (page history and authors); OP (page history and authors); op (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); op (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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