GOP
English
editEtymology 1
editInitialism of Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌdʒi oʊ ˈpi/
Proper noun
editGOP
- (US politics) The Republican Party, one of the two major political parties in the United States.
- 2005, Jesse Helms, “Ronald Reagan, 1976”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.”
Usage notes
edit- GOP is often used attributively, as in "GOP members", "GOP senator", and so on.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editAcronym of group of pictures, a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream.
Noun
editGOP (plural GOPs)
- (signal processing, video compression) Acronym of group of pictures.