Phrases
the GOP
: the Republican Party of the U.S.
longtime members of the GOP
often used before another noun
a GOP governor
attending the GOP convention

Note: GOP was originally an abbreviation of "Grand Old Party."

Examples of GOP in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With 11 days until Election Day, former President Barack Obama lambasted North Carolina's down-ballot GOP candidates during an Uptown rally Friday night. Alexandria Sands, Axios, 26 Oct. 2024 One group was particularly likely to see the GOP as a boys' club: Three-fourths of Harris voters said Republicans cared more about issues of concern to men. Susan Page, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024 In Wisconsin, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin took in $52.3 million as of Oct. 16, nearly twice as much as opponent Eric Hovde, and Pennsylvania incumbent Sen. Bob Casey has raised $46.1 million to GOP rival Dave McCormick’s $27.7 million. Alison Durkee, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024 But the newspaper also published an article by two staff reporters revealing that editorial page staffers had drafted an endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris over GOP nominee Donald Trump in the election. Dan Mangan, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024 Haley won about 13% of the GOP vote in the Wisconsin presidential primary despite having already dropped out of the race. Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2024 Although poll watching is itself normal, the GOP is training and deploying armies of monitors with the presumption of fraud, flooding election offices with public-records requests, and filing endless challenges to voter-registration records. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024 Trump’s advantages on those top issues, paired with sagging voter registration trends among Democrats during the Biden era, give the GOP nominee a slight edge heading into Election Day. Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2024 Randall Avila, a spokesperson for the county GOP, said the party has made a concerted effort since 2020 to provide opportunities for its voters to meet with the county registrar of voters as well as the party’s election integrity team. Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of GOP was in 1882

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“GOP.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GOP. Accessed 2 Nov. 2024.

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