MCP

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MCP (plural MCPs)

  1. (dated) Initialism of male chauvinist pig.
    • 1976 January 23, Nicholas Wade, “Edward Goldsmith: Blueprint for a De-industrialized Society”, in Science, volume 191, number 4224, →JSTOR, page 270:
      If that makes him sound like a male chauvinist, well, he appeared at a recent conference in Houston wearing a tie emblazoned with boar heads and the monogram MCP.
    • 2012 May 1, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN:
      Bottom line, an MCP was a guy who put more value on men than he did on women. Paradoxically, some MCPs put their women up on a pedestal—a statue of his fantasy—and that's where their women were supposed to stay.
  2. (biology) Initialism of membrane cofactor protein.
  3. (biology) Initialism of MetaCarpoPhalangeal, as in joint.

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MCP

  1. (computing) Initialism of Microsoft Certified Professional.
  2. (Malaysia, Singapore, politics, historical) Initialism of Malayan Communist Party (Parti Komunis Malaya).
    Synonym: PKM

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