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Definition of OAP
(Entry 1 of 2)
old-age pension
OAP
noun\ ˌō-ˌā-ˈpē 
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\ plural OAPs
Definition of OAP (Entry 2 of 2)
British, old-fashioned
: an elder recipient of a government pension
There were a few kids; mostly, they were OAPs: a crowd of perhaps twenty people.— A. N. Wilson, Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness, 1983
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The first known use of OAP was circa 1942
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