Fop definition

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(obs.) A foolish person.
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A vain, affected man who pays too much attention to his clothes, appearance, etc.; dandy.
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Fraternal Order of Police.
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A vain man; a dandy.
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Fraternal Order of Police.
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
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(travel, aviation) Form of payment.
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(finance) Free of payment, delivery of securities with no corresponding payment of funds.
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A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners; a dandy.
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Singular:
fop
Plural:
fops

Origin of fop

  • Middle English fool probably akin to Middle English fob trickster, cheat fob2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English foppe, fobbe (“fop, fool”). Akin to German foppen (“to jeer”)

    From Wiktionary

Fop Sentence Examples

  • But only a literary fop can be detained by specks like these.

  • He wrote fables, allegories, satires, and a successful comedy of manners, The Swedish Fop. He outlived his chief contemporaries so long that the new generation addressed him as " Father Gyllenborg."

  • The narrator of these poems is himself, according to Combe, " the target fop who sees " (60 ).

  • Napoleon was here defeated, and with only 30,000 men at his back he was compelled to renounce all ideas of a further offensive, and he retired to rest his troops to Reims. Here he remained unmolested for a few days, fop Blucher was struck down by sickness, and in his absence nothing was done.

  • At the moment fop ' s memory consumption forbids compiling cookbooks with more than a couple of hundred recipes even on recent computers.

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