Meanings
gop1
GOP2
- USgovernmentThe Republican Party, one of the two major political parties in the United States.
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.”
2005, Jesse Helms, “Ronald Reagan, 1976”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1031 more example
House GOP leaders believe the plan is on track to pass the chamber, arguing that Trump’s backing will help them win robust support among House Republicans on the floor this week, even as many ultraconservatives typically loathe such stopgap measures.
2025 March 8, Sarah Ferris, “Speaker Johnson unveils bill to fund the government through September 30”, in CNN
GOP3
plural GOPs
- abbreviationacronymvideo compressioncomputingAcronym of group of pictures.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of gopnik.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe younger of two major political parties in the United States; GOP is an acronym for grand old party
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
gop · noun
- Russianго́п
- Englishgop
Borrowed from Russian го́п (góp).
More words from Russian
Full word history & related roots →GOP · proper noun
Initialism of Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party, in use by 1884.
Full word history & related roots →GOP · noun
Acronym of group of pictures, a collection of successive pictures within a coded video stream.
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Cite this entry
gop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gop
“gop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gop. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gop.
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