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Po

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
pəʊ

Definitions

  1. A peacock.
  2. A chamberpot.
    Australia, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial, dated
  3. The police.
    plural, plural-only, slang
  4. A city in Burkina Faso.
  5. The longest river in Italy, which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.
  6. Initialism of post office.
  7. Initialism of purchase order.
  8. Initialism of police officer.
  9. Initialism of probation officer.
  10. Initialism of petty officer.
  11. Initialism of principal officer.
  12. Initialism of playoff.

Equivalents

Françaispo
DeutschPo
Português
20 more languages
العربيةبو
БългарскиПо
BosanskipadPoПо
Češtinapád
Esperantopado
HrvatskipadPoпо
Magyar
ItalianoPo
日本語ポー川
한국어
Kurdîpo
LatinaPadus
Polskipad
Русскийпо
Slovenčinapád
Српскиpadpoпо
TürkçePo
УкраїнськаПо
Tiếng Việtvía

Examples

“Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude-- Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers!”
“‘Pos’ or ‘chamber potswere provided under the beds.”
There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.”
Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.”
“"Basically it's a celebration of all the gearheads in the area," Rob told him. "Sometimes we get busted by the po, but we always find a new place to show off our rides. Enjoy this lot while we have it."”
“"'Bout time the po' got here," someone said loud enough for Bree to hear.”
Now, one of the rules I hadthis is another reason why certain police probably respected us dudeswhen it was hot, when I saw certain po, we would shut it down. We left. I would just leave. I would give them they space and let them go.”
“I gotta take a whiz test to my PO / I know I failed 'cause I done smoked major weed, bro

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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