M.P.

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mp"

English

Noun

M.P. (plural M.P's or M.P.'s or M.P.s)

1. Alternative form of MP.
   • 1953 April 15, “Sir Will wears the traditional topper”, in Daily Record, number 17,948, page 3:

     ONLY two M.P.s among the early arrivals sported the traditional silk topper when the Commons resumed yesterday after the Easter recess to hear Mr. R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, open his second Budget. The “be-toppered” members were Sir William Darling (C., South Edinburgh) and Mr. Gerald Nabarro (C., Kidderminster).

   • 1956 June 3, “Alastair Forbes Surveys the World Political Scene”, in Sunday Dispatch, 155th year, number 8,061, page 8:

     “If M.P.s,” declared the new political commentatrix, “can’t find anything else except Debbery for question time, then the nation is in a bad way.”

   • 1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 209:

     The North Staffordshire was always a railway of character from its formation in 1845, and the Railway Member identified with it from the start was also a character. John Lewis Ricardo was M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent ^[sic] from 1841 to 1862.

   • 1961 July 7, “Black Temper”, in Time‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 February 2012:

     So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "A dog's breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it."

Anagrams

• pm, PM, p. m., P. M., P.M., p.m.