as in dude
a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance
he's such a fop that he drives nearly 50 miles just to get his hair cut by Monsieur Louis
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Recent Examples of fop
Alec Roberts’s Lorenzo was more practical than greedy; John Lam made Gamache an endearing and nuanced fop.
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Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
From the very beginning, though, riders were also mocked as fops pursuing a ludicrous pastime.
—Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
Cartoons of the period show caricatures of self-regarding young fops posing and preening with their monocles on full display.
—Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
No, those bewigged, Georgia-era fops didn’t speak with a lisp.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
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Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
From the very beginning, though, riders were also mocked as fops pursuing a ludicrous pastime.
—Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
Cartoons of the period show caricatures of self-regarding young fops posing and preening with their monocles on full display.
—Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
No, those bewigged, Georgia-era fops didn’t speak with a lisp.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fop
Noun
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Plenty of people, critics or otherwise, weighed in online, often piling on about their distaste for a perfectly adequate, somewhat imperfect, modestly ambitious thriller that’s mostly about a very intense dude trying to protect his adult children.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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But in college football’s hottest early-season matchup, the Carlsbad dude was California cool.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Travis Kelce’s podcast and later becoming engaged to her beau of two years.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Then Emily Simpson suggests a game to cheer up Shannon Storms Beador’s daughter Sophie, who came home from New York City for the weekend after being dumped by a beau.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Fop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fop. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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