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PP (countable and uncountable, plural PPs)

1. Initialism of parish priest.
   • 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 11:

     Whose is that car? Do you see it she said, parking at the gate? Oh God let it not be the PP and the state of the place.

2. (organic chemistry) Initialism of polypropylene.
3. (medicine) Initialism of precocious puberty.
4. (medicine) Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
5. (grammar) Initialism of prepositional phrase.
6. (sports) Initialism of power play.
7. (dance) Initialism of promenade position.
8. (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pussy pass.
9. (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
10. Initialism of public parking.
11. (British, Ireland) Initialism of planning permission.

PP

1. Initialism of PowerPoint.
   • 2015 September 23, Andrew Smith, “How PowerPoint is killing critical thought”, in The Guardian‎:

     PP’s enthusiasts claim that it emboldens nervous speakers and forces everyone to present information in an ordered way. […] The presentational precursor to PowerPoint was the overhead projector, which is why PP screens are still called “slides”.

2. Initialism of PayPal.
3. Initialism of Planned Parenthood.
4. (video games) Initialism of Puzzle Pirates.
5. Initialism of Partido Popular (“People's Party”): a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Spain.
   • 2016 August 28, Martín Caparrós, “Spain: A Country With No Government”, in The New York Times‎:

     Nowadays, for example, voting for the Socialist Party can mean a leftist coalition between the Socialists and Podemos, the anti-establishment party, or a center-right one among the Socialists, the center right Ciudadanos and Partido Popular; a vote for Ciudadanos may yield a right-wing alliance with the P.P. or a centrist one with the Socialists.

PP

1. Initialism of play or pay.
   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     ‘Well, I’ll bet you half a dozen of claret on it; come!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, resuming the conversation to which Mr. Pell’s entrance had caused a momentary interruption.
     […] ‘I never bet half a dozen!’ said the other gentleman. ‘I’ll take a dozen.’
     ‘Done, Simmery, done!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire.
     ‘P. P., mind,’ observed the other.

• (organic chemistry) Bashford, David. Thermoplastics: Directory and databook; →ISBN. London: Chapman & Hall, 1997.

PP m

1. Initialism of Partit Popular.

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PP f

1. (Paris) Initialism of Préfecture de police.

PP

1. (government, law) Initialism of peraturan pemerintah.
2. (government) Initialism of pamong praja.
3. (education) Initialism of pendidikan dan pengajaran.

PP

1. Initialism of Partai Persatuan.

• PP., P.P., P. P.

PP (singular P)

1. Abbreviation of patres, fathers.
2. Abbreviation of patrum.
3. Abbreviation of patribus.
4. Abbreviation of papa, pope.

   Synonym: P

5. Abbreviation of papae.
6. Abbreviation of papam.
7. Abbreviation of papae, popes.
8. Abbreviation of paparum.
9. Abbreviation of papis.
10. Abbreviation of papas.

• RR PP

• IPA^(key): /ˌpeˈpe/ [ˌpeˈpe]
• Rhymes: -e

PP m

1. Initialism of Partido Popular (“People's Party”).

• People's Party (Spain) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

PP n (genitive PP:s)

1. Abbreviation of Piratpartiet (Pirate Party)