# PP
## English
### Noun

PP (countable and uncountable, plural PPs)
* Initialism of parish priest.
** 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 11:Whose is that car? Do you see it she said, parking at the gate? Oh God let it not be the PP and the state of the place.
* (organic chemistry) Initialism of polypropylene.
* (medicine) Initialism of precocious puberty.
* (medicine) Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
* (grammar) Initialism of prepositional phrase.
    Coordinate terms: NP, VP
    partitive PP
* (grammar) Initialism of past participle.
    Coordinate terms: pres. part., pres.part.
    Alternative forms: pp, pp., p.p., p. p.
* (sports) Initialism of power play.
* (dance) Initialism of promenade position.
* (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pussy pass.
* (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
* Initialism of public parking.
* (British, Ireland) Initialism of planning permission.

#### Translations
### Proper noun

PP
* Initialism of PowerPoint.
** 2015 September 23, Andrew Smith, “How PowerPoint is killing critical thought”, in The Guardian‎:PP’s enthusiasts claim that it emboldens nervous speakers and forces everyone to present information in an ordered way. […] The presentational precursor to PowerPoint was the overhead projector, which is why PP screens are still called “slides”.
* Initialism of PayPal.
* Initialism of Planned Parenthood.
* (video games) Initialism of Puzzle Pirates.
* Initialism of Partido Popular (“People's Party”): a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Spain.
** 2016 August 28, Martín Caparrós, “Spain: A Country With No Government”, in The New York Times‎:Nowadays, for example, voting for the Socialist Party can mean a leftist coalition between the Socialists and Podemos, the anti-establishment party, or a center-right one among the Socialists, the center right Ciudadanos and Partido Popular; a vote for Ciudadanos may yield a right-wing alliance with the P.P. or a centrist one with the Socialists.

### Phrase

PP
* Initialism of play or pay.
** 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:‘Well, I’ll bet you half a dozen of claret on it; come!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, resuming the conversation to which Mr. Pell’s entrance had caused a momentary interruption. […] ‘I never bet half a dozen!’ said the other gentleman. ‘I’ll take a dozen.’ ‘Done, Simmery, done!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. ‘P. P., mind,’ observed the other.

#### References

* (organic chemistry) Bashford, David. Thermoplastics: Directory and databook; →ISBN. London: Chapman & Hall, 1997.

## Catalan
### Proper noun

PP m
* Initialism of Partit Popular.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

PP f
* (Paris) Initialism of Préfecture de police.

## Indonesian
### Noun

PP
* (government, law) Initialism of peraturan pemerintah.
* (government) Initialism of pamong praja.
* (education) Initialism of pendidikan dan pengajaran.
* (healthcare) Initialism of pulang paksa (“discharge against medical advice”, literally “forced return home”).

### Proper noun

PP
* Initialism of Partai Persatuan.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* PP., P.P., P. P.

### Noun

PP (singular P)
* Abbreviation of patres, fathers.
* Abbreviation of patrum.
* Abbreviation of patribus.
* Abbreviation of papa, pope.
    Synonym: P
* Abbreviation of papae.
* Abbreviation of papam.
* Abbreviation of papae, popes.
* Abbreviation of paparum.
* Abbreviation of papis.
* Abbreviation of papas.

#### Derived terms

* RR PP

## Portuguese
### Proper noun

PP m
* (Brazil, politics) Abbreviation of Progressistas (previously known as Partido Progressista), a centre-right to right-wing political party in Brazil.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌpeˈpe/ [ˌpeˈpe]
* Rhymes: -e

### Proper noun

PP m
* Initialism of Partido Popular (“People's Party”).

### Further reading

* People's Party (Spain) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Swedish
### Proper noun

PP n (genitive PP:s)
* Abbreviation of Piratpartiet (Pirate Party)