Short for operational plan, used widely in Philippine government, military, and law enforcement contexts, and carried over into Filipino-American community speech. An oplan can refer to anything from a formal police anti-drug operation to a personal scheme someone is cooking up. In casual Filipino usage it doubles as slang for any coordinated plan or hustle — less formal than a strategy, more deliberate than winging it.
She already has an oplan for getting front-row tickets — three alarm clocks and a group chat on standby.
Oplan means: Short for operational plan, used widely in Philippine government, military, and law enforcement contexts, and carried over into Filipino-American community speech. An oplan can refer to anything from. It is military jargon and mostly appears in service contexts, war fiction, or among veterans and their families. It has drug-related associations; worth a calm conversation about which side of the topic your teen is on. This is a food-related word and harmless in itself.
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Oplan means: Short for operational plan, used widely in Philippine government, military, and law enforcement contexts, and carried over into Filipino-American community speech. An oplan can refer to anything from. It is military jargon and mostly appears in service contexts, war fiction, or among veterans and their families. It has drug-related associations; worth a calm conversation about which side of the topic your teen is on. This is a food-related word and harmless in itself.
oplan means: Short for operational plan, used widely in Philippine government, military, and law enforcement contexts, and carried over into Filipino-American community speech. An oplan can. Register: informal, military jargon. Avoid in formal, business, academic, or polite writing. Even in casual speech the word can offend and is best left out of a learner's active vocabulary. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
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(Philippines, US) operational plan.
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