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HPHewlett-Packard
HPHorsepower
HPHome Page
HPHigh Performance
HPHigh Power(ed)
HPHigh Point (geographical)
HPHealth Plan
HPHigh-Profile
HPHidden Power (Pokemon)
HPHigh Pressure
HPHigh Pass (Filter)
HPHarry Potter
HPHigher Power
HPHigh Production
HPHead Phones
HPHealth Promotion
HPHire Purchase
HPHospital (UK)
HPHeadphone(s)
HPHigh Priority
HPHand Phone (cellular phone)
HPHuman Performance
HPHighway Patrol
HPHealth Points (video games)
HPHand-Painted
HPHonda Prelude
HPHealth Physics
HPHigh Purity
HPHarp
HPHeat Pipe
HPHigh Priced
HPHyde Park
HPHouse Party (Sims expansion pack)
HPHistoric Preservation (various locations)
HPHole Punch(er)
HPHand Picked (groundnuts)
HPHemel Hempstead (postcode, United Kingdom)
HPHalbpension (German: halfboard)
HPHimachal Pradesh (state in India)
HPHeparin
HPHydrogen Peroxide
HPHypothalamic-Pituitary
HPHit by Pitch (baseball)
HPHelicobacter Pylori (bacteria)
HPHonors Program (various schools)
HPHôpitaux de Paris (French: Paris Hospitals; Paris, France)
HPHard Palate (mouth)
HPHemiparesis (medical disorder)
HPHandicapped Parking (transportation)
HPHalf-Pint
HPHigh Priest
HPHouses of Parliament (UK)
HPAmerica West Airlines (airline code)
HPHunter Pence (baseball player)
HPHigh Pitch (musical instruments)
HPHelmerich & Payne (oil company)
HPHuntington Park (California)
HPHot Process (soap making)
HPHip Pain
HPHolding Pattern
HPHollowpoint (bullet)
HPHorizontal Pitch (electronic equipment)
HPHello! Project
HPHome Port (of a vessel)
HPHistory and Physical (medical)
HPHotplugging (ability to plug in new devices and use immediately)
HPHorizontal Parallax (astronomy)
HPPerigee Altitude (US NASA)
HPHypersensitivity Pneumonitis
HPHunter's Point (San Francisco district)
HPHealth Practitioner
HPHoliday Pay
HPHoney Pie (Beatles song)
HPHoi Polloi
HPHodrick-Prescott (Filter)
HPHersheypark (amusement park Hershey, Pennsylvania)
HPHole Plug
HPHydraulic Platform (self-propelled, fire brigade road vehicle for aerial rescue/firefighting used in UK)
HPHealth Post
HPHit Probability
HPHealth Physicist
HPHuman Pituitary Gonadotropin
HPHiroshima Prefecture
HPHenry Paul (musician)
HPHurricane Program (US FEMA)
HPHandyphone
HPHorizontal Polarization
HPHerald Press
HPHeart Points (gaming)
HPHydrogen Purge
HPHot Pipe
HPHeritage Party (Zambia)
HPHindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd
HPHladno Pivo (band)
HPHope Page
HPHead Prefect
HPHarmonic Power
HPHorse Piss (Horse Piss Beer)
HPHintapyyntö (Finnish)
HPHyper Police (anime series)
HPHale Pohaku (Dormitory at Mauna Kea Observatories)
HPHalf Position (music)
HPHit Point(s) (gaming)
HPHigher Order Path
HPHeptode
HPHemi-Pelvectomy (amputation)
HPHide Position
HPHajtás Pajtás (Bike Messenger Company; Hungary)
HPHazi Palinka (Hungarian plum brandy)
HPHuman Particulate
HPHead Pixie (cartoon character)
HPHousehold Profile
HPHealth Point(s) (gaming)
HPHypothication
HPHora Prima (Latin: First Hour, epigraphy)
HPHiper Pool
HPHic Positus (Latin: Buried Here, epigraphy)
HPHonesta Puella (Latin: Virtuous Girl, epigraphy)
HPHereditatis Possessio (Latin: Ownership by Heritage, epigraphy)
HPHorizontal Plotter
HPHydrographic Procedure
HPHonestus Puer (Latin: Virtuous Boy, epigraphy)
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Over the years, Bahceli has written about Cyprus for local and overseas publications and Hoi Polloi reflects his open-minded, easygoing sensibility.
* Well, technically, given this uber-cool gym's membership policy, and prices, the members are not so much hoi polloi as posh sweaty Bettys.
Off-Off Broadway's Flea Theater in downtown Manhattan couldn't be more different from Borderlands--it's a pocket-sized, ultra-urban hotbed of experimentation where celebrities can sometimes be spotted among the hoi polloi. But Flea artistic director Jim Simpson and his new favorite playwright, mainstream mainstay A.R.
"Hoi polloi" - which refers to the masses - is a Greek phrase meaning "the many".
The preserves, zoo partisans argue, would become sanctuaries only for elitism, with managers and rich donors still getting to see the pachyderms up dose, while selling remote video access to the hoi polloi.
A history of England for readers on the run, this compendium dashes from century to century, stopping to explain siege warfare, the working methods of the Exchequer, the intricacies of the Tudor Court and Anglo-Scottish border clans, and many other topics involving both the powerful and the hoi polloi. Hudson has edited many works of history and has worked as a special correspondent to the London Times.
It also wanted to appear less intimidating (Morgan's library was a hermetic strong-box, designed to exclude the hoi polloi and natural light) and to develop its role as an art museum.
In other words, "serious journalism" is about giving the hoi polloi what the journalists think they need, not what they actually want.
"HMS" stands for "His (or Her) Majesty's Ship" and to refer to a British warship as "the HMS" is as gross a solecism as referring to "the Hoi Polloi."
The hoi polloi who admired Ponzi, however, didn't believe the Post's takedowns at first.
Emerging choreographer Sara Sweet Rabidoux describes herself as "a filmmaker trapped in a choreographer's body." For her Massachusetts-based company, hoi polloi, she makes flamboyant dances that integrate release technique, gesture from classic modern dance, and the versatilily and speed of classical ballet.
And one never sees them out racing, hunting or socialising with the hoi polloi so as to become a little more aware of the real world.
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