HP
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English
Etymology
Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home + page.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/
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Proper noun
HP
- (India) Abbreviation of Himachal Pradesh, a state of India
- The Hewlett-Packard Company
- Harry Potter
Noun
HP (countable and uncountable, plural HPs or HP)
- Initialism of hire purchase.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 205:
- Everything is practical, sensible, reasonably priced and available on HP.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 205:
- Initialism of horsepower.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Hit points; health points.
- 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
- If you stay at a hotel, you'll wake up with full HP and PP.
- Initialism of higher power.
- Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
- Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
- Abbreviation of hydrogen peroxide.
- (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
- (Japan) Initialism of home page.
Derived terms
German
Indonesian
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha ˈpɛ/
Proper noun
HP n (indeclinable)
- The Hewlett-Packard Company
- Mam notebooka z HP. ― I've got an HP notebook.
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