provo

provo (plural provos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Provo (“member of Dutch counterculture movement”)
   • 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 22:

     In this respect, they lag behind Amsterdam's provos, Western Europe's hippies, who once tried to prove a point about communal property: […]

• OProv

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provo

1. first-person singular present indicative of provar

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ovo
• Hyphenation: pro‧vo

provo (accusative singular provon, plural provoj, accusative plural provojn)

1. attempt

Clipping of provokaatio or provosointi. Alternatively a back-formation from provosoida.

• IPA^(key): /ˈproʋo/,
• Rhymes: -oʋo
• Hyphenation^(key): pro‧vo

provo (colloquial)

1. Synonym of provokaatio.

• “provo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɔvo
• Hyphenation: prò‧vo

provo

1. first-person singular present indicative of provare

• Rhymes: -ɔvu, (Northern Portugal) -ɔbu
• Hyphenation: pro‧vo

provo

1. first-person singular present indicative of provar