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EvilLootbox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, it just shouldn’t be capitalized. It’s short for “operative” and usually refers to somebody you think is (or jokingly think is) working for/with the cops or feds.

  It’s “Opp,” not OPP

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah you know me!

    Sorry, 42 years old, force of habit.

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    • TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah you know me!

      You down with O.P.P.?

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  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s “opp” with two p’s but it’s short for “operative”, a word with one p? I’m starting to think that you don’t really know either.

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    • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah and “rizz” comes from charisma but isn’t spelled “riz.”

      And “OP” has multiple existing potential meanings still in common use today, so it makes sense to me to spell it with flair for the sake of clarity.

      Slang is complex and morphs as it travels though; so do some folks use opp as “opponent”? Sure, that’s believable. But I feel fairly confident (never fully confident; I am fallible after all) that it’s original use comes from AAVE and more specifically hip-hop, where I again feel pretty damn confident it refers to an operative and not an opponent.

      If I am wrong though, I would love to be corrected (with some verification of some kind) so I can be sure to reconcile the new info and not spread misinformation again. I’ll happily await your evidence to that end.

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      • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        so do some folks use opp as “opponent”? Sure, that’s believable. But I feel fairly confident…

        Bro, it doesn’t even have the right number of P’s for your reasoning to make any sense.

        It comes from “opponent,” that’s why there are two P’s. It comes from video games/chess/card games/etc where you refer to the person or persons you’re playing against as the “opponent”. It’s been happening for many years but has made it’s way into gen z slang.

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    • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not operative. It’s opposition.

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  • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like Narc would be the translation then…

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    • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Narc is more specific, opp is more general, so the youngin’s have opted for opp.

      Every narc is an opp, not every opp is a narc.

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  • eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s short for “opposition”, as in a rival gang

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    • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This. It’s definitely not operative lol

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    • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This makes vastly more sense in both gamer and hip-hop context than “opponent” does, so I’m willing to concede that this might actually be the right reading, as retroactively this fits in place of “operative” in the hip-hop settings I’ve experienced it in whereas opponent doesn’t.

      Kudos.

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  • tkk13909@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh I thought it was short for “opponent” lol

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    • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s because it is. People who don’t understand just make shit up. That’s why the number of P’s doesn’t even line up.

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      • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I always thought opposition

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  • Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh a narc. That’s funny cuz up here the cops are actually called the OPP

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• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s where my mind went, too. I’m 40.

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• don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The last p, well… that’s not that simple. It’s sorta like another way to call a cat kitten. As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted: the first two letters are the same but the last is something different; it’s another five letter word rhymin’ with cleanest and meanest.

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  • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My high school Algebra teacher was once telling the class about ZPP, the zero product property. He told us when he was teaching in the 90s, there was a new song out called OPP and he would say “you down with ZPP?” and the class would say “yeah you know me!” lol

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  • DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Penist!

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• 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it just “OP”? Like how online forums starting Reddit say “original poster” and this just snuck its way into all conversation?

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