GOP

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See also: gop, Gòp, and góp

English

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Etymology 1

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Initialism of Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party.

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GOP

  1. (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.”
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  • GOP is often used attributively, as in "GOP members", "GOP senator", and so on.
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Etymology 2

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Acronym of group of pictures, a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream.

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GOP (plural GOPs)

  1. (signal processing, video compression) Acronym of group of pictures.
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