OAP
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British.
old-age pensioner.
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How to use OAP in a sentence
The men carried small, unbarbed fish-spears, the women and children baskets and bundles of oap.
All fish which were too small to be eaten were thrown into other pools to recover from the effects of the oap.
One day I decided to try and ascertain if oap would affect fish by being swallowed.
Oap is a good thing in which to hide from an enemy, and then spring from and slay him suddenly.
British Dictionary definitions for OAP
OAP
abbreviation for (in Britain)
old age pension
old age pensioner
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