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M.P.
The usual abbreviation for ‘Member of Parliament’. Often treated (colloq. or in informal writing) as a word, with the pronunciation |ɛm piː|; the plural is written M.P.'s, sometimes M.P.s.
1809Byron Bards & Rev. 273 All hail, M.P.! from whose infernal brain Thin-sheeted phantoms glide. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey xxviii, M.P. to their name is a handsome advertisement. 1870Disraeli Lothair viii, There were no less than four M.P.s, one of whom was even in office. 1886Kipling Departm. Ditties, etc. (1888) 53 ‘Skittles!’ says Pagett, M.P. 1889E. Parry Gay Umbrella iii, I shall represent the City And be known as the gay M.P.
Hence M.P.-ship, the office of an M.P.
1832Miss Mitford Village Ser. v. 83 The son's M.P.-ship had probably tended to make his mamma epistolary. 1886Tupper My Life as Author 67 As to M.P.ship I may have had other chances. |