opnoun [ C ]
uk/ɒp/us/ɑːp/op noun [ C ] (OPERATION)
UK informal a medical operation:
How long did you take to recover from your op?
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Medical treatment: surgery
- ablate
- adrenalectomy
- anaesthesiology
- anastomose
- anesthesiology
- circumcise
- collagen
- eviscerate
- facelift
- frontal lobotomy
- implant
- keyhole surgery
- laminectomy
- laparoscopic
- laparoscopy
- laparotomy
- ligation
- nose job
- pump out sth
- transplant
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op noun [ C ] (OPPORTUNITY)
an opportunity:
a photo op (= a chance for a politician, etc. to be photographed looking good or doing good things)
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Opportunity
- a free ride idiom
- another/a second bite at/of the cherry idiom
- best bet idiom
- bite
- break
- chance
- foot
- half
- it's now or never idiom
- look in
- make hay while the sun shines idiom
- manqué
- miss
- pass
- the American dream
- the run of sth idiom
- the world is sb's oyster idiom
- there are plenty more fish in the sea idiom
- toehold
- window
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