fop
IPA: fˈɔp
noun
- (dated) A vain man; a dandy.
- (pathology) Initialism of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. [(pathology) A very rare disease of the connective tissue in which fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) becomes ossified when damaged.]
- (law) Initialism of freedom of panorama. [(copyright law) A provision in copyright law that permits taking photographs or video footage, or creating other images (such as paintings), of buildings and sometimes artworks that are permanently located in a public place, and publishing such images without infringing copyright.]
- (travel, aviation) Initialism of form of payment. [(uncountable) The act of paying.]
- Initialism of fly over people. individuals who reside between the two coasts of the US, with the exception of a few major cities; considered a derogatory term because of the voting block in the mostly red states
- Initialism of Fraternal Order of Police.
adjective
- (finance) Initialism of free of payment, delivery of securities with no corresponding payment of funds
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Examples of "fop" in Sentences
- Fop gratefully hands the ring over.
- No FOP for this sort of work in Moldova.
- Sir Gregory Fop, a witless lord of land.
- The rest of the FOP movies have articles.
- Fop swears to deliver the letter and exits.
- Fop agrees to play along with the ruse; he exits.
- FOP allows taking derivative pictures of copyrighted works.
- The Niece asks Fop what he has done with the scarf she gave him.
- Also this is not likely to be a FOP problem even in countries that lack FOP.
- After unzipping the download, you will have a file name fop-0. 95 (the latest version as of November 4, 2008).
- Don Diego Viega, whose picture might just be beside the word 'fop' if California had a dictionary, can do nothing about it.
- At eight-and-twenty, Caesar, who not thirty years later was to die master of Rome, was chiefly known as a fop and a spendthrift.
- I didn't yet understand the word "fop," but I sure wanted to be one, even if I had to cut off one of my own hands to look this dashing.
- It seems to me that the objections he raises have to do with the double Pole names play in such contexts and only call fop moPe sophisticated linguistic analysis.
- The style takes a while to get adjusted to since the novel starts on a very light note despite its grim underlying events, Portier being a very self-deprecating and wry narrator, while his two companions in the investigation, Chevalier Ilario and sorcerer Dante start as the overdone cliches of "fop" and "brilliant but moody outsider sorcerer".