SP

See also: sp, Sp, sp., s/p, Sp., s.p., ś.p., and ␠

English

Noun

SP (countable and uncountable, plural SPs)

1. (horse racing, chiefly Australia) Starting price.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 157:

     He was an atheist, a rationalist, a medical student of no great distinction, an SP punter, a singer of bawdy songs, an acknowledged expert in matters erotic.

   • 1998, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage 2015, p. 196:

     It was the last time, too, when […] the races dominated the radio on Saturday afternoons and everyone had the number of an SP bookie.

2. Selling price
3. (US, military, navy) Shore patrol
4. (law enforcement) State Police
5. Slow play
6. (computing) service pack
7. (law enforcement) superintendent
8. (Scientology) suppressive person
9. (biochemistry) substance P
10. State Park
11. (highways) Spur
12. (ice skating) Short Program

Alternative forms

• S.P., S. P.

Synonyms

• (law enforcement): supt.

Derived terms

• (law enforcement): CSP, SSP

Related terms

• (law enforcement): DSupt, DCS, Ch Supt

Proper noun

SP

1. Initialism of São Paulo, A state of Brazil.

See also

• EP
• LP
• SLP
• single
• record
• album
• 33
• 45
• 78

Anagrams

• %ps, P's, P.S., PS, PS., Ps, Ps., p's, p**s, p.s., ps, ps.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Socialistische Partij.

Proper noun

SP f

1. Initialism of Socialistische Partij.; the Socialist Party, a left-wing democratic socialist party in the Netherlands.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

SP

1. Initialism of São Paulo, the Brazilian state.

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Turkish

Proper noun

SP

1. (politics) Initialism of Saadet Partisi (Felicity Party).