PP
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pp"
English edit
Noun edit
PP (countable and uncountable, plural PPs)
- Initialism of parish priest.
- 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 11:
- Whose is that car? Do you see it she said, parking at the gate? Oh God let it not be the PP and the state of the place.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polypropylene.
- (medicine) Initialism of precocious puberty.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
- (grammar) Initialism of prepositional phrase.
- (sports) Initialism of power play.
- (dance) Initialism of promenade position.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pussy pass.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
- Initialism of public parking.
- (UK, Ireland) Initialism of planning permission.
Translations edit
Proper noun edit
PP
- Initialism of PowerPoint.
- 2015 September 23, Andrew Smith, “How PowerPoint is killing critical thought”, in The Guardian[1]:
- PP’s enthusiasts claim that it emboldens nervous speakers and forces everyone to present information in an ordered way. […] The presentational precursor to PowerPoint was the overhead projector, which is why PP screens are still called “slides”.
- Initialism of PayPal.
- Initialism of Planned Parenthood.
- (video games) Initialism of Puzzle Pirates.
- Initialism of Partido Popular (“People's Party”): a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Spain.
- 2016 August 28, Martín Caparrós, “Spain: A Country With No Government”, in The New York Times[2]:
- Nowadays, for example, voting for the Socialist Party can mean a leftist coalition between the Socialists and Podemos, the anti-establishment party, or a center-right one among the Socialists, the center right Ciudadanos and Partido Popular; a vote for Ciudadanos may yield a right-wing alliance with the P.P. or a centrist one with the Socialists.
Phrase edit
PP
- Initialism of play or pay.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- ‘Well, I’ll bet you half a dozen of claret on it; come!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, resuming the conversation to which Mr. Pell’s entrance had caused a momentary interruption.
[…] ‘I never bet half a dozen!’ said the other gentleman. ‘I’ll take a dozen.’
‘Done, Simmery, done!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire.
‘P. P., mind,’ observed the other.
References edit
- (organic chemistry) Bashford, David. Thermoplastics: Directory and databook; →ISBN. London: Chapman & Hall, 1997.
Catalan edit
Proper noun edit
PP m
- Initialism of Partit Popular.
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Audio (file)
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PP f
- (Paris) Initialism of Préfecture de police.
Indonesian edit
Noun edit
PP
- (government, law) Initialism of peraturan pemerintah.
- (government) Initialism of pamong praja.
- (education) Initialism of pendidikan dan pengajaran.
Proper noun edit
PP
- Initialism of Partai Persatuan.
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Noun edit
PP (singular P)
- Abbreviation of patres, fathers.
- Abbreviation of patrum.
- Abbreviation of patribus.
- Abbreviation of papa, pope.
- Synonym: P
- Abbreviation of papae.
- Abbreviation of papam.
- Abbreviation of papae, popes.
- Abbreviation of paparum.
- Abbreviation of papis.
- Abbreviation of papas.
Derived terms edit
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PP m
- Initialism of Partido Popular (“People's Party”).
Further reading edit
- People's Party (Spain) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Swedish edit
Proper noun edit
PP n (genitive PP:s)