Coop Explained

Coop or Co-op most often refer to:

• Chicken coop or other animal enclosure
• Cooperative or co-operative ("co-op"), an association co-operating for mutual social, economic or cultural benefit
  • Consumers' co-operative
  • Food cooperative
  • Housing cooperative (as in "a co-op apartment")
    • Building cooperative
  • Worker cooperative
• Cooperative board game
• Cooperative video game
• Prison, in slang

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

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
• , an episode of Documentary Now spoofing the 1970 D.A. Pennebaker documentary Original Cast Album: Company
• CO-OP (podcast), a weekly video podcast

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
• Dale Cooper, in the television series Twin Peaks, nicknamed "Coop"

Businesses

Supermarket chains

• Co-op Atlantic, a chain of member-owned grocery stores in Canada
• Coop amba, Denmark
  • Coop Eesti, a supermarket chain in Estonia Coop (Hungary)
• Coop (Italy)
• Coop (Netherlands)
• Coop Norge, Norway
• COOP (Puerto Rico)
• Coop Jednota, a supermarket chain in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic
• Coop (Sweden)
• Coop (Switzerland)
• Co-op Food, United Kingdom
• CO-OP, a brand owned by Universal Cooperatives
• Federated Co-operatives, a western Canadian co-operative federation known for its "CO-OP" brand grocery stores

Other businesses

• The Co-op Bookshop, an Australian bookstore chain
• The Co-operative brand, used by several UK co-operative businesses
  • The Co-operative Group, the largest co-operative in the UK
• CO-OP Financial Services, an interbank ATM network operating in Canada and United States
• Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society, nicknamed "The Coop", a cooperative campus store based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Education

• COOP exam, an admission test for American Catholic high schools
• Cooperative education, combining classroom learning with work experience

Government and politics

See also: Co-operative Party (disambiguation).

• Coop-NATCCO, a political party in the Philippines
• Continuity of Operations Plan, a United States continuity of government initiative
• Craft of Opportunity Program, a Royal Australian Navy minesweeper acquisition program
• Labour Co-op, a description for British electoral candidates

People

• Coop (surname), a list of people
• Coop (artist), American hot-rod artist Chris Cooper (born 1968)
• Davie Cooper, nicknamed “Coop”, Scottish international footballer (1956–1995)

Other uses

• .coop, a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the internet
• Cooperative Observer (COOP), a network of American volunteer weather observers
• Co-op Live, an arena in Manchester, England
• Allerton Coops, historic apartment building complex in the Bronx, New York

See also

• Coupé
• Coops, a surname
• Coopes, a surname
• Coope, a surname
• Cooper (surname)
• Cooperative (disambiguation)
• Koop (disambiguation)
• KO_OP, a Canadian video game studio