OAP

1 of 2

abbreviation

old-age pension

OAP

2 of 2

noun

ˌō-ˌā-ˈpē 

plural OAPs

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

Word History

Etymology

Noun

old-age pensioner

First Known Use

Noun

circa 1942, in the meaning defined above

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