opping
opping is the present participle and gerund of op.
Meaning of op
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
opping (plural oppings)
- The promotion of an IRC user to operator status.
- […] the purpose of delaying autoops is basically reducing the number of mode changes, and grouping several oppings into one.1994, Roger Espel Llima, “Keeping a channel open (ircii-2.6)”, in alt.irc (Usenet)
- Chanserv can control a channel in terms of oppings and deoppings […]1998, do...@noone.com, “Chat Channel”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet)
Forms of opping
| plural | oppings |
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Questions about opping
- What does opping mean?
- Opping means the promotion of an IRC user to operator status.
- What is opping the present participle and gerund of?
- Opping is the present participle and gerund of op.
- What part of speech is opping?
- Opping is a noun.
- What is the plural of opping?
- The plural of opping is oppings.
Words near opping in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: opping (page history and authors); op (page history and authors). 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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