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LP or lp may stand for:
- in corporate law or company names, limited partnership
- in chemistry, liquid propane
- short for Les Paul, a style of guitar.
- the long play gramophone record / phonograph record format. (which was, during the 1970s and 1980s, the most popular record format—see vinyl record)
- Long Play (VCR format)
- MDLP, the long play format of the MiniDisc
- nu metal band, Linkin Park
- in politics:
- in the dark-sky movement, light pollution
- in applied mathematics, linear programming (a fundamental optimization problem)
- the Larch Prover
- the Lincoln Park gambling establishment in Rhode Island
- Lonely Planet
- in mathematics, Lp space
- in popular usage in Taiwan, an abbreviation for testicles ("lan pa") in Taiwanese / Min Nan dialect, popularised by the use of this abbreviation when media outlets reported Taiwan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen blasting Singapore over its pro-China stance [1] (http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/09/28/2003204697)
- in some Video Games and Strategy Games, LP can stand for Life Points, which are similar to Hit Points. Most notable of these is those of Yu-Gi-Oh!
- In shock sites, short for Lemon Party.