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KP

1 American  
Chess.
  1. king's pawn.


K.P. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Military. kitchen police.

  2. Knight of the Order of St. Patrick.

  3. Knights of Pythias.


KP 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Knight (of the Order) of St Patrick

  2. military kitchen police

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

symbol

  1. chess king's pawn

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
kp 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Democratic Republic of Korea

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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KP Law said that 98% of its clients chose not to participate in the Harrods settlement program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“It took us a bit with KP out to figure out kind of how we can still flow,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

KP Law's case alleges that J&J never issued warnings on the packaging of its baby powder and instead marketed it as a symbol of purity and safety.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

KP Law notes that one claimant is dying from their cancer every three days and called for the case to proceed more quickly.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

An explosion of excited conversation—no KP for a whole month?

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

When their father dies and leaves behind a sketch that might be the work of renowned Vietnamese painter K.P.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The objects range from 1975 etchings by the artist K.P.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

Hand sanitizer works, yes, but only if it is used correctly, says K.P.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2020

“But I think the conversation me and K.P. had brought everything to light and it was best for me to come back to school.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2016

The portrait which forms the frontispiece to this volume is taken, by permission, from the painting in the possession of the Earl of Howth, K.P.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

Saw kp of 7.3 and drove to Lake Ontario for the most beautiful display!!!

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

Sylow’s theorem may be extended to show that if pa′ is a factor of the order of a group, the number of subgroups of order pa′ is of the form 1 + kp.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Kw = kp = tp = pt, t and k being interchangeable before labials in Dak.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

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