Coop

Coop, COOP or Co-op usually refers to:

• A chicken coop or other enclosure
• Cooperative ("coop") or co-operative ("co-op"), an association of persons who cooperate for their mutual social, economic, and cultural benefit
  • Housing cooperative, e.g., a co-op apartment in a co-op apartment building
  • Building cooperative
  • Food cooperative or "food co-op"
• Prison, in slang
• Cooperative gameplay in video games
• Co-operative board game

Coop, COOP or Co-op may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Coop (Charmed), a fictional character from the television series Charmed and its franchise.
• Cooper Bradshaw, in the soap opera Guiding Light, nicknamed "Coop"
• Marissa Cooper, in the television series The O.C., nicknamed "Coop"
• Coop, in the animated television series Megas XLR
• Coop Burtonburger, in the animated television series Kid vs. Kat
• The titular character of the film J. W. Coop, played by Cliff Robertson

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Coop! The Music of Bob Cooper, a 1959 album
• The Co-op, a 1980s singer-songwriter cooperative that formed the Fast Folk musical magazine

Businesses

Supermarket chains

• Coop (Hungary)
• Coop (Italy)
• Coop (Netherlands)
• COOP (Puerto Rico)
• Coop (Switzerland)
• Co-op Food, United Kingdom
• Coop amba, Denmark
• Coop Eesti, Estonia
• Coop Norge, Norway
• Coop Forum, Sweden
• COOP Jednota, Slovakia

Other businesses

• The Co-operative brand, used by several UK co-operative businesses
  • The Co-operative Group, the largest co-operative in the UK
• Federated Co-operatives, a Canadian co-operative federation known for its "CO-OP" brand products and stores
• Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society, nicknamed "The Coop", a cooperative campus store based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• CO-OP Financial Services, an interbank ATM network operating in Canada and United States
• Coop Savings and Loans Limited, a Nigerian mortgage lending company
• The Co-op Bookshop, an Australian bookstore chain

People

• Coop (surname), a list of people
• Coop (artist), American hot-rod artist Chris Cooper (born 1968)

Politics and government

• Continuity of Operations plan, a United States continuity of government initiative
• Coop, a minor political party in the Philippines
• Craft of Opportunity Program, a Royal Australian Navy minesweeper acquisition program

Other uses

• .coop, a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the internet
• A type of street football with one goal
• COOP exam, a standardized admission test at certain U.S.-based Catholic high schools
• Cooperative Observer (COOP), a network of American volunteer weather observers
• Cooperative education, a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience

See also

• Coupé
• Koop (disambiguation)
• Coops (disambiguation)