Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A military police officer.
  • abbreviation member of Parliament
  • abbreviation military police
  • abbreviation mounted police

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  • noun The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Northern Mariana Islands.
  • initialism Member of Parliament
  • initialism military Military Police
  • initialism gaming mana points
  • initialism gaming magic points
  • abbreviation Megapixel

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From m(ilitary) p(olice).]

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Examples

  • Verifying my info on TKs web site, once ticketed, they had my UA MP number in their record and that included the notation UASTARGOLD, followed by my MP#.

    FlyerTalk Forums LIH Prem 2010

  • MP is short for the only political party that was against the legislation in any form; miljöpartiet / the green party - the only true liberals in sweden .. and swedes .. let´s not forget that it was the social democrat Bodström who first tried to make a similar law.

    The Pirate Bay - Blog 2008

  • MP is short for the only political party that was against the legislation in any form; miljöpartiet / the green party - the only true liberals in sweden .. and swedes .. let´s not forget that it was the social democrat Bodström who first tried to make a similar law.

    The Pirate Bay - Blog 2008

  • I have just found out my MP is a bloke called Hugo Swire and he is Shadow Minister for Culture!!

    Priestly Castes and Political Exclusion Newmania 2007

  • As it happens I cannot recall who my MP is at the moment.

    Open Letter to our so-called legislators Helen 2006

  • And if your MP is a “son-of-a-dog” and is sleeping with the cartels, at least you took some of their ‘precious time’ (but you also lose your precious time) ….

    Big Music: scaring children 2005

  • The disaffected Tories cheered when Taylor lost - expecting that Jones would be a one term MP and that they would get their (caucasian) candidate back into the seat in 1997 ...

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • I wrote a few months back about the possible configurations of the coming election in the Northern Ireland constituency of North Down, which until this week was represented by the only remaining MP from the Ulster Unionist Party, the former party of government under the old Stormont regime.

    North Down latest nwhyte 2010

  • The election of Salum Khalfani Bar'wani, Tanzania's first albino MP, is being hailed as a breakthrough for those affected by the genetic condition in the east African nation.

    Tanzania Elects First Albino MP Curtis M. Wong 2010

  • Readers will have their own candidates for which MP is the biggest porker of them all but there is something particularly 'Animal Farm' about Mr. Betts.

    Clive Betts: Sleazocrat & Porkocrat 2009

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