English Explanatory Dictionary

SCP

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Initialism of Senior Crown Prosecutor.
noun
  1. A genre of science fiction horror consisting of quasi-scientific reports on the capture, containment, and attempted study of a variety of supernatural entities by the fictional shadow organization known as the SCP Foundation.
  2. Such a report or supernatural entity.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛs.siˌpi/

Word forms

SCP SCPs

Etymology

An initialism of special containment procedures. Not an initialism of the SCP Foundation’s motto, secure, contain, protect, which is a backronym from SCP.

Derived words

SCP-esque
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