opa

plural opas

1. among people of German-speaking ancestryGrandfather, grandpa.

   My children have an oma and an OPA, so I knew that I could put in the O and the A.

   2020 September 1, Deb Amlen, “Sales Spiel in 60 Seconds or Less”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2020

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   We love to eat: Opa's apple cake […] My opa (grandfather) had a long and beautifully kept allotment in the north German town of Flensburg.

   2012 July 13, Clare Hansen, “Family life”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2015

   I intuited that somehow I’d always been, yet, clearly, there was time — a considerable time — when I was not. So, where was I? I didn’t have an opa to ask.

   2016 September 20, Jim Carnett, “Pondering the eternal with my grandson”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025

   That story of him playing football on his crutches I’ve heard from at least four people: my grandparents, my mum and one of the other boys, who’s since become a mildly creepy evangelical Christian. He retold it to me at my opa’s funeral, about half a century after the game. It’s true that I asked my opa some less than tactful questions on that visit. […] My opa had actually started writing a memoir once before, soon after my oma died.

   2020, Alexander Starritt, We Germans, London: John Murray (Publishers), →ISBN

   My opa grew up poor in Vienna and then got a scholarship to a prestigious Jewish high school.

   2022 September 14, Jessica Grose, “What School Anxiety Dreams Teach Us About Ourselves”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2022

1. An expression of excitement, shock or surprise.

   He's even founded a center based on his principles of applying opa to everyday life, dedicated to the practice of "The Opa! Way" and manifesting your inner Greekness, which he says you can have without being actually Greek.

   2020 July 31, deTraci Regula, “Opa! The Greeks Have a Word for It All”, in ThoughtCo, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2024

plural OPAs

1. abbreviationcountableAbbreviation of optionally piloted aircraft.
2. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of offensive patent aggregation.